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| Cambodian police officials are seen standing outside the Preah Vihear temple, on July 18, 2012. Thailand and Cambodia are to face off at the UN's highest court on Monday in a dispute over land surrounding the temple that has seen deadly clashes along their joint border |
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| Graphic on the Preah Vihear temple on the border bewteen Thailand and Cambodia. The two nations go to court on Monday in a dispute over land surrounding the site |
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| A Cambodian Buddhist monk is seen near the Preah Vihear temple in Preah Vihear province, north of Phnom Penh, along the border with Thailand, on November 7, 2008. Thailand and Cambodia are to face off at the UN's highest court Monday in a dispute over land surrounding the temple that has seen deadly clashes along their joint border |
By Jan Hennop | AFP News 04/15/2013
General Prayut Chan-O-Cha said in February that his country would not necessarily respect an ICJ ruling
Thailand and Cambodia took their dispute around a flashpoint ancient temple to the UN's highest court on Monday, in a case Phnom Penh warned could end friendly relations between the countries.
The Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) has begun a week of hearings after Cambodia asked two years ago for an interpretation of the 1962 ruling on the Preah Vihear temple.
Thailand does not dispute Cambodia's ownership of the 900-year-old temple, a UNESCO World Heritage site that has seen deadly clashes along their joint border. But both sides claim an adjacent 4.6-square-kilometre (1.8-square-mile) patch of land.
Without an interpretation of the 1962 ICJ ruling, there could be "unfortunate consequences which would prevent the two states from living in a friendly, peaceful and cooperative environment," Cambodia's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong told the court.
He stressed that the Preah Vihear temple was a "very important symbol of the peaceful relations between Thailand and Cambodia."
Bangkok allegedly did everything "to delay a swift decision by the court," he added.
Ahead of Cambodia's opening statement on Monday, Hor Namhong told reporters his country "felt threatened" by troop incursions from Thailand.
A verdict from the ICJ, which judges disputes between states, is not expected for several months.
In February 2011, 10 people were killed in fighting at the Preah Vihear temple site and fresh clashes broke out farther west in April 2011, leaving 18 dead.
The ICJ subsequently ruled that both countries should withdraw forces around the Khmer temple, which is perched on a clifftop in Cambodia but with access much easier from the Thai side.
Access from the Cambodian side was so difficult in the 1970s that it was the last place to fall to the Khmer Rouge regime, and also the Communists' last holdout in the 1990s.
Cambodia and Thailand finally pulled hundreds of soldiers out of the disputed border area in July 2012, replacing them with police and security guards. The situation remains calm.
But Cambodia said Monday that despite a request to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) last year, Indonesian observers have still not been put in place.
Thailand ahead of the hearings said it would "fight the case transparently and with our best effort."
"When all the statements are released, people can consider the issues," Thailand's ambassador to The Hague, Virachai Plasai said ahead of the hearings.
Thailand says that arguments over the land bordering the temple stem from Cambodian efforts to define rights over it as part of its application for World Heritage status for the temple.
The roots of the dispute are however much earlier, dating to maps drawn during French colonial disengagement in the early 20th century.
Thailand is broadcasting the hearing live on its state-run television channel, with a translation in Thai.
Tensions between the two nations have calmed since mid-2011 when Yingluck Shinawatra, the sister of exiled former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, became Thai prime minister.
Her brother is a friend of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen.
The powerful head of the Thai military, General Prayut Chan-O-Cha said in February that his country would not necessarily respect an ICJ ruling.
"The government will decide if it respects it," he told journalists.
If the government's response is negative, "we will have to take a decision on what to do next, but not by using aggression. We are civilised countries (sic!)," he said.
Thailand is to put its case on Wednesday.
15 comments:
Yuon demanded Hun Sen to fight Thai for Preah Vihear temple that Khmer people have no benefit to die for useless temple. Those Khmer troops should be in the Cambodia-Vietnam border because now we are borderless between Cambodia and Vietnam.
It is just a cpp election tactic.
Preah Vihear would not have been in the World Court in the first place if Thailand was to respect Cambodia's ownership of the Cambodian build temple. It is about economic for Thailand. They want want joint development so Thailand can benefit from the temple that never theirs. This is why we never get along. Only the World Court can put a stop to this... I praise Hun Sen for standing up the Thailand for the fight for Khmer nation's interest. I wish he would stand up against the Vietnamese quiet encroaching as well politically and territorially.
Hun Sen is Viet slave and powerless against his boss. Fight against Viet is a no no but fight against is a not going to happy. Hun Sen visited Preah Vihear when he heard Thai jet fighters, he is running like a crazy dog for safety.
Hun Sen is a coward dictator and a scare Viet dog everywhere he go he needed a maximum security guards of 4,000 and the battle tanks for shelter.
"He said the attacks injured and killed nearby residents and damaged the temple."
= It is such a shame that the Siem thugs are willing to damage and destroy the temple which they claimed as their! This is not the first time and in 1962 they looted the temple of sculptures, stelae, fragments of monuments, sandstone model and ancient pottery and have yet to return back to Cambodia!
If the temple was a baby and I am sure they are willing to cut the baby in half as long as they have the baby. This behavior of the Siem thugs is no less than a criminal behavior, savage, and killer!
At the end of the day I expect the ICJ's judgment to be the same as the Judgment of King Solomon.
http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?sum=284&code=ct&p1=3&p2=3&case=45&k=46&p3=5
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It is the same story, in the difficult time, our country Cambodia always have some idiot traitors, who did not know the personal and national interest.
As a Khmer born and not a politician, I will sacrifice and fight for this Temple and not have time to think, who is the PM of Cambodia.
This Country Cambodia is not the country of Hun Sen or belongs to a private government. This is a country of all the Khmer citizen. When you don’t feel well with the Khmer nationality on your skin, you should move to Thailand and serve them until you last day.
It is just wasting of money to bring the case to ICJ again. The best solution between both countries is we should share ownership with Thailand and promote tourism to Preah Vihear temple. This is the win-win situation and Cambodia and Thailand will get equal revenue from Preah Vihear temple.
Pang Sokheoun, Secretary-General of SRP in Sweden.
បានជាសៀម យួន មើលងាយខ្មែរ, មកពីមេដឹកនាំខ្មែរអាហ៊ុន សែនCPP,ជាកញ្ជៈយួនតគ្នា
ដល់អាសម រង្ស៊ី + អាកឹម សុខា (CNRP)ជាឆ្កែកញ្ជៈអាចោរ ហ៊ុន សែន ។ចប់
All are Yuon's Games. Every time when election comes Ah Yuon have another tactic to buy Vote. Now again Ah Yuon make their slave Hun Sen a hero again. Nothing new.
Would you share your wife with Rude Prayuth [ Siam general] to avoid conflict? You must be brainless creature and proud of your stupid position as SRP sec-general and forget your duties to preserve & protect your territory integrity huh? Go ahead be prodded of your position forget about your land and be slave to the thieves!....Share whatever you personally have with them....But don't ask Cambodia to share her treasure/pride with the thieves anymore.
Khmer krohom
សំរាប់ ពលរដ្ឋខ្មែរ ជុំវិញ ពិភពលោក
អាសម រង្ស៊ី , អាកឹម សុខា ជា មនុស្ស របស់ ហ៊ុន សែន, ល្មម ឈប់ប្រជាភិថុត បោកបន្លំភ្នែកពលរដ្ឋខ្មែរ-ក្អេងក្អាង ដូច ក្អាត់ ក្នុង ក្អម ទៀត ទៅ ព្រោះ តុលាការ អន្តរជាតិ ICC បានទទូលពាក្យបណ្តឹង របស់លោក សួន សេរីរដ្ឋា ហើយ តំាង ពី ខែ តុលា ១០, ២០១២ ម៉្លេះ។
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