April 8, 2011, 9:17 am
Press Release
Source: http://www.mfa.go.th/web/35.php?id=27006
On 7 April 2011, Mr. Thani Thongphakdi, Director-General of the Department of Information and Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, responded to media questions about the press release of the Cluster Munitions Coalition (CMC) dated 6 April 2011, alleging Thai use of cluster munitions in Cambodia, as follows:
1. CMC’s statement about what the Thai Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva had said was misrepresented. The Permanent Representative had informed the CMC that Thailand had used “Dual Purpose Improved Conventional Munitions” (DPICM), not “cluster munitions” as erroneously reported by CMC.
2. Thailand’s use of DPICM was in response to Cambodia’s attacks against Thailand with BM-21 multiple-rocket launcher systems, which struck at targets indiscriminately. Such attacks had impacted Thai civilians. It was therefore necessary for Thai troops to act in self-defense against such military targets. In doing so, the Thai troops had exercised maximum restraint, on the basis of necessity, proportionality, and in strict compliance with the military code of conduct and rules of engagement, taking the utmost caution to avoid civilians.
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Thai, the evil empire, would do anything to harm its neighbor and would do anything to deny it.
All Khmer must to know the old Khmer proverb, it statet that "THAI MINH CHHOUL KBOUN YOUN MINH CHOUL POTH KHMER SOUT TROUT PSAM CHHOSS PSAM LEUGN". That is what the old Khmer generation create this word by today. No only Khmers, but also every diplomatic foreigners know this new cluster bomb very well because in Hotwitzer altilleries 155 mm or 205 mm has such cluster bombs. How long will you lie the whole world ? Are you thinking foreigners and Khmers are dumb stupid than you ??
Dual Purpose Improved Conventional Munitions (DPICM) bomblets and Cluster Munitions are like Thailand and Siam. Thais are always thinking the whole world is dumb! But it's good that they confirment that they have used thoses cluster boms against Cambodian civilians!
Dog will be dog...that applies to all siams!
Only the Thais can turn whores into virign, and men into women, and cluster bombs into Dual Purpose Improved Conventional Munitions!
it shouldn't be based on what siem thugs are saying; it should be based on evidence found at the scene, really! siem is flip flopping all the time, don't buy into what they say or whatever, concrete evidence at the scene can't lie like siem thugs are lying, you know!
siem are idiot, don't be an idiot like siem thugs!
silly to go by what siem thugs are saying, really! go with the real evidence only! i thought they study law!
"The main weapon for Thailand is the 155-mm Caesar self-propelled howitzer artillery, with a shooting range of 40km... There is a joke among Thai soldiers that Cambodian troops hate "Caesar salad".
=Well the Siem military thugs like to joke about their Caesar salad lace with cluster bombs and who wouldn't hate it when it is the civilian who will suffer the most. Now the Siem military thugs change their food menu to DPICM? In response to the next round of conflict Cambodian will have to serve the DPICM to the Siem military thugs! If the Siem military thugs choose to fight dirty and Cambodian military must do the same to stop any Siem naked aggression on Cambodian sovereignty!
there is good reason that they banned cluster bomb because if cambodia uses it too, then siem is also in trouble, you see! think about it, ok!
“Thailand’s use of DPICM was in response to Cambodia’s attacks against Thailand with BM-21 multiple-rocket launcher systems, which struck at targets indiscriminately. Such attacks had impacted Thai civilians.”
=Take a moment and read the Siem thugs logic and the Siem thugs said that Cambodian BM-21 struck targets indiscriminately comparing to the DPICM or the cluster bomb! It is well known that the DPICM or the cluster bomb will contaminate wider area than the BM-21 multiple-rocket because one the cluster bomb up in mid air and it will open up and it will rain down on the ground indiscriminately and killing and damage anything come in contact!
Khmer people always obey the law or have always been respected the rule of laws ever since, trying to do the right things and being afraid of the higher-up leaders or what so ever.
Khmer population is not small. It combines with Khmer Krom (Southern Vietnam), Khmer Surin (Northern Thailand) and Khmer Kandal (Cambodia today).
If Khmer people don't care about Buddha or did not show respects, Khmer could be very aggressive like Thai and Vietnam or China, and would have more power and become a very developed nation in the world. The enemies like SIAM (Thailand) and Die Viet (Vietnam) are betrayal and hypocrite races when Khmer people have been so soft and so kind to the neighbors (like Vietnam, Thailand, Laos/Hmong, China, etc) until the neighbors (Thailand and Vietnam) took for grants and stole things and destroyed Khmer people. What on earth the Vietnam and Thailand are doing to Khmer (Cambodia) until today?
It is sad that the Thailand and Vietnam have been using Khmer people as unthinking and forgotten people as their strategies to destroy the real Khmer history to regain their rewritten and false histories. They plan to brainwash their young generations to act very weird and rude until today as you know. Many young people of Thailand and Vietnam have learned their false histories on earth and then their histories will not have the values to learn.
Thailand and Vietnam compare themselves to be like the U.S., British Empire, etc. That is stupid.
youn and siem evil thugs will never be like america or the british empire, etc! they are too evil to be like america, you know!
KAMPUCHEA KROM AT A GLANCE
Kampuchea Krom is composed of 68,965 square kilometers, 21 provinces and municipalities, two large islands - Koh Tral and Koh Tralach, 171 districts, 1,368 communes, 14,778 villages, more than 13 million Khmers, more than 567 Buddhist pagodas and more than 20,000 Theravada Buddhist monks.
99% of populations are Theravada Buddhists.
The Khmer kings, governments, regimes and citizens have never relinquish (give up) this part of their country to foreigners.
Kampuchea Krom has been under an ongoing colonial control since her division from motherland, Cambodia.
June 4, 1949 is the date that the Khmer Kampuchea Krom citizens grieve. The Khmer Kampuchea Krom people have organized Buddhist Service annually to honor the fallen Khmer Buddhist monks and heroes, who sacrificed their lives for Kampuchea Krom and Theravada Buddhism.
Colonial France divided, ceded and transferred Kampuchea Krom to colonial Vietnam on this date. The freedom of Khmer Kampuchea Krom has been mostly stripped by the Vietnamese ruling regimes and governments since. The French colonial administration committed injustice upon the more than 13 million Khmers of this beautiful fertile land.
Justice remains elusive for Cambodia, Kampuchea Krom and her citizens.
And...The struggle to regain freedom and human rights by the Khmers in Kampuchea Krom continues as long as injustice commits by the ruling Vietnamese regime(s) has not produced a fruitful result.
Koh Tral (Tral Island)
in Vietnamese - Phu Quoc island
circa 1939 Vietnamese encroached and conquered
Koh Tral Island has an area of 567 square kilometers; about 62 kilometers long and between 3 kilometers and 28 kilometers wide. The island physically is located closest to Cambodia's Kep seaside city. Visitors can see Koh Tral Island from the coastline of Kep. It is about a 30-minute motorized boat ride.
By Smart Khmer Girl, Ms. Rattana Keo
Koh Tral Island must not be forgotten
By Ms. Rattana Keo
Why do Koh Tral Island, known in Vietnam as Phu Quoc, a sea and land area covering proximately over 10,000 km2 [Note: the actual land size of Koh Tral itself is 574 square kilometres (222 sq miles)] have been lost to Vietnam by whose treaty? Why don’t Cambodia government be transparent and explain to Cambodia army at front line and the whole nation about this? Why don't they include this into education system? Why?
Cambodian armies are fighting at front line for 4.6 km2 on the Thai border and what's about over 10,000km2 of Cambodia to Vietnam. Nobody dare to talk about it! Why? Cambodian armies you are decide the fate of your nation, Cambodian army as well as Cambodian people must rethink about this again and again. Is it fair?
Koh Tral Island, the sea and land area of over 10,000 square kilometres have been lost to Vietnam by the 1979 to 1985 treaties. The Cambodian army at front line as well as all Cambodian people must rethink again about these issues. Are Cambodian army fighting to protect the Cambodia Nation or protecting a very small group that own big lands, big properties or only protecting a small group but disguising as protecting the Khmer nation?
The Cambodian army at front lines suffer under rain, wind, bullets, bombs, lack of foods, lack of nutrition and their families have no health care assistance, no securities after they died but a very small group eat well, sleep well, sleep in first class hotel with air conditioning system with message from young girls, have first class medical care from oversea medical treatments, they are billionaires, millionaires who sell out the country to be rich and make the Cambodian people suffer everyday.
Who signed the treaty 1979-1985 that resulted in the loss over 10,000 km2 of Cambodia??? Why they are not being transparent and brave enough to inform all Cambodians and Cambodian army at front line about these issues? Why don't they include Koh Tral (Koh Tral size is bigger than the whole Phom Phen and bigger than Singapore [Note: Singapore's present land size is 704 km2 (271.8 sq mi)]) with heap of great natural resources, in the Cambodian education system?
Look at Hun Sen's families, relatives and friends- they are billionaires, millionaires. Where did they get the money from when we all just got out of war with empty hands [in 1979]? Hun Sen always say in his speeches that Cambodia had just risen up from the ashes of war, just got up from Year Zero with empty hands and how come they are billionaires, millionaires but 90% of innocent Cambodian people are so poor and struggling with their livelihood every day?
Smart Khmer girl Ms. Rattana Keo,
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