Did former late King Sihanouk ask the UN to leave Cambodia?

Who says our National Assembly President's birth village is being ceded to Vietnam? No, that's a lie!! Go see for yourself! It is now in ASEAN, just as Cambodia and Vietnam are in ASEAN . . .  and mark me well, "in a generation or two from now people will no longer care about national borders anyway!"

Opposition law-makers prevented from inspecting border markers along Cambodia-Vietnam border

Re: A border line cuts through a Cambodian pagoda in Kampong Cham province

Note by School of Vice

This is one of the main reasons why Sihanouk [in all likelihood caving in to Hun Sen’s/Hanoi’s pressure] publicly and 'indirectly' urged the UN to leave Cambodia following the 1993 election which marked the end of the UNTAC mission in the country. There was a suggestion at the time that the UN could leave some sort of monitoring presence in Cambodia [particularly, along her troubled border areas] so that any such infringements on her sovereignty by any of her neighbours could be verified and resolved through the Paris Peace Accords framework which 'guarantees' or ensures the inviolability of Cambodia's territorial integrity and sovereignty.

As we have subsequently witnessed with regard to the hijacking of the work of the ‘hybrid’ KRT trial, the personal verbal attacks upon the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights Prof Subedi by Hun Sen in recent times, the derailing of the 30 March 1997 grenade attack investigation by the FBI [because a US citizen was injured in the incident] and so on, guaranteeing Cambodia's right to exercise her full independence and sovereignty has always been an uphill struggle. Yet, the haste by Sihanouk to appease the Hun Sen regime in his rather vague and optimistic expectation of "peace and political stability" even following on from decades of turmoil and devastation has effectively neutered all the international effort that had previously gone into realising the PPA in 1992 on Cambodia's long term and definitive political settlement, and thus, it can be argued, pushing Cambodia and the issue of its survival and sovereignty back to square one.

"The UN can leave some of its personnel behind, but be assured they will be used!"

-Sihanouk in a national radio broadcast, 1993

This is typical Sihanouk-speak; a direct-indirect signal to his target audience as to his actual intentions or decisions and displeasure over unresolved matters. The statement is obviously a coded message to the international community: 'Thank You for assisting us thus far, but for our sake, please leave us alone'. And alone the country now finds itself like a helpless abducted girl being gang-raped left, right, east, west and centre ... with no one to witness the scene of the crime.