UNITED NATIONS (BNO NEWS) -- The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Friday designated a Special Envoy to address the Preah Vihear Temple which was damaged during recent border clashes between Cambodia and Thailand.
Koichiro Matsuura, former Director-General of UNESCO, was named Special Envoy and will visit Bangkok and Phnom Penh to discuss the safety of the Hindu temple inscribed on the World Heritage List.
Matsuura will examine with both Cambodia and Thailand how to lessen tension between the two sides as well as promote dialogue for the preservation of the 11th century temple.
On Tuesday, UNESCO announced that it would send a mission to assess the damage caused by the recent armed clashes between the two South-East Asian neighbors to the temple. The Preah Vihear Temple was inscribed on the World Heritage List in July 2008.
Cambodian-Thai tensions first escalated in 2008 following the build-up of military forces near the temple, which dates back to the 11th century and is located on the Cambodian side of the border.
Last week, fighting erupted between Cambodian and Thai soldiers along the border between Thailand's Si Sa Ket province and Cambodia's Preah Vihear province. One Thai soldier, one civilian and at least three Cambodians were reportedly killed Friday and Saturday in exchanges of small arms and artillery fire.
On Saturday, Thailand and Cambodia agreed on a ceasefire both the fighting resumed on Sunday. Each side blamed the other for initiating the shooting. The fire exchange has already caused severe damage to Cambodia's Preah Vihear Temple.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called both sides for restraint as clashes resumed on Monday and have continued in recent days. UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova called for calm as well.
The Hindu temple was dedicated to Shiva and is composed of a series of sanctuaries linked by a system of pavements and staircases over an 800-metre-long axis. The temple dates back to the first half of the 11th century AD. The site is exceptional for the quality of its carved stone ornamentation and its architecture, adapted to the natural environment and the religious function of the temple.
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Dear Dr. Hun Sen and Ten Thousands stars Dr. Hun Manet,
Why do you and your relatives give Kos Trol, sea and lands to Vietnam? Why? and Why?
Why do you and all of your relatives involve a lot of murder cases in Cambodia? Why? Why?
Why do you murder Cambodian K5, 1997 events and so on and so on with lost count? Why?
If you are so good why do you and your families murder Cambodians? Why? And Why?
If you are so good, why do above 90% Cambodians are so poor but you and your relatives are billionaires and millionaires? Why? Why?
Why do you try to kill people from telling the true? Why? Why?
What is the difference from Khmer Rough and you, Sir?
If you are so good why do you block KI from Cambodians?
If you are so good, why do you steal all Cambodian life such as well being, health, cut down Cambodians life expectancy as well? But you and your small group are eat well, sleep well, exercise well, have oversea doctors and best medical treatment from high class private doctors from oversea. Most Cambodians that have no money, your healthcare system left Cambodians patients to die in front of your hospital. Why? Why?
If you are so good why more than 6 millions Vietnamese are living permanently in Cambodia, right now? Why, Dr. Hen Sen? And Why
Everywhere, I walk in Cambodia I see Vietnamese speak Vietnamese every where, why? Why?
Don't you and your families scare of hell for eternity?
When you die can you bring all of your power and money with you?
How come only real Khmer with dark skin, skinny with no big land and property willing to go to the frontline to defiance Cambodia land but Chinese Cambodians are hiding and waiting to take the lands and benefit after war, Is that fair to real dark skin Khmer, Dr. Hun Sen???? When the country in trouble only Khmer with dark skin willing to die to protect Cambodian nation but rich fat Chinese Cambodian abuse dark skin Khmer as stupid after the war over, why Dr. Hun Sen??? Why??? Most Chinese Cambodians are prejudice toward dark skin Khmer and they always look down to real Khmer as stupid. They are very hardly let’s dark skin Khmer married their children. Can Dr. Hun Sen please explain to all dark skin military of Cambodia? Where is the Chinese Cambodians at frontline? Is it really unfair to Khmer army?
Dr. Hun Sen and Dr. Big ass lady and his beloved Dr. Hun Manet Please don't put us in jail or kill us for this! We want to live like you and your families do!
Khmers victim of 1997 and K5, Khmer Girl Ms. Rattana Keo
PS
If Dr. Hun Sen and Dr. Hun Manet remove the tablet it is show they are extremely coward and his star are just joy stars given by his daddy not by patriotism. Dr. Hun Manet is very coward as his daddy they only aim to kill innocent Cambodians that all. Dr. Hun SEn and Dr. ten stars Hun Manet are very great at bullying Cambodians and killing Cambodians but cowardly toward Thai and Viet.
CPP are not just corrupted, CPP are extremely corrupt. They are even sell the country such as Kos Trol, Seas, lands, Cambodian people, Cambodian health and well being, all resources in the Cambodia…with lost count. You name it!
Seriously where is the win win policy of Dr. Hun Sen represent? The country is getting smaller and smaller and shame by Dr. Hun Sen and Dr. Hun Manet and his families, his relatives and friends.
Khmer built Preah Vihea, ankor wat and many temples in Surin Sisaket Buriram Ubon, Ayuthia.. Siem is thief stelling steeling Cambodian land.
Brothers sisters in Si sa ket, surin, buriram must join khmers soldiers against Siem soldiers. We are Khmers. We love Khmers.
1:32 pm
enough is enough. Too much is too bad.
Thanks
Khmer in USA
1:32 pm
enough is enough. Too much is too bad. use your brain to defend and salute troops at the frontline
Thanks
Khmer in USA
Beloved Khmers in Si Sa Ket,
We are Cambodians oversears love all of you. Abhisit and Yellow shirt start the war. Don't let Yellow Shirt come in your area. They are very bad people. Kick them out.
Tell soldiers to throw the guns away and go back home. Don't dy for Yellow shirt and Abhisit.
some light white yellow skin cambodians always say they are chinese but when they go to real chinese community the real chinese are prejudice and discriminate to them beacsue the real chinese from china think that chinese cambodians are real traitor of Khmer, dark skin khmer must stand up for our nation!
Chinese cambodians always look down on real dark skin khmer and they always say dark skin khmer are stupid and poor. They abuse dark skin khmer for too long!
When the country in war they are hiding their children but after war they like to take advantage over dark skin khmer. That isn't fair. Only dark skin khmer are at the frontline protect khmer nation, chinese cambodians like to hide and abuse dark skin khmer after the war.
thailand is very good in down play with the reality.The whole world know that Preah Vihear is belong to Cambodia but thailand still want to play dumb with the truth.Thailand want to make advantage from its neighbors in all every centuries,the recently land were belong to Cambodia and Lao.
Thailand think that Cambodia now is weak and has troublesome from the East with vietnam that why thailand down play with the thuth.
Thailand is going to deploy 20 000 troops to the border. Is it a threat?
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1:32 PM
Your worthless shit has been reposted for a few hundred times.
Don't you have any shame?
Why don’t you get lost dickhead?
There are no juctice have been given to cambodians that Hun Sen murdered at 1997 and so on. Where is UN?
Chinese cambodians try so hard to be chinese but the real chinese from Hong Kong and china don't reconized them at all. That is real shame! They can't even mix in real chinese community at China Town. They go to Hong Kong \, Hongy people can't even understand their chinese and they racist to chinese cambodian very badly.
At frontline there is no china cambodian born at all. They are real traitor! Dark skin khmer will fight to death to defence Khmer Nation!
Thanks you but if you are real chinese why don't you live at China big super power country? Why Cambodia??? Why? Does China reconized you as chinese citizenship and protect you? You eat Cambodians rice and you grow fat than you thanks China and abuse dark skin khmer as stupid.
Who the F*** is 1:32PM ? Does he have anything better to do than keep posting the same sh** again and again like this? This is not the time to BS around. Our khmer people got killed by Siam invaders.
Referring to poster 5:57pm...We don't need you to promote hatred in this forum. I know your not Khmer. You just want to stir hatred between Cambodians and Chinese. We just want to live in peace with everyone.
no racial slur is allowed in cambodia from now on! cambodia is color blind for the first time in our history for the sake of national reconstruction, national development, etc, etc... people are now better educated, thus, racial slur or bigotry is a thing of the past because in the, people were ignorant and less educated than in this era in cambodia, so things have changed greatly. thank god and god bless cambodia.
color of skin is trivial or unimportant now, what's very important is the ability to speak good khmer and read and write khmer language better, etc. ignorance has no place in cambodia, that's the new motto in cambodia, ok!
plus, there ought to be new law that state any political leader(s) of cambodia who used racial slur are not qualified to run for office as that is a sign of ignorance and backwardness and outdated thinking, etc... better educated people instead should be taught to upheld code ethics, professionalism, tolerance, respect the law, etc, etc, not using racial slur or racial bigotry to wip up problem, etc, ok! this is a changed cambodia, not the dark age cambodia, ok! get used to it, ok!
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