Thursday, April 18, 2013

UN court reopens case on ancient temple at core of Thai-Cambodian border dispute

Temple of Preah Vihear. Photo: Jean-Jacques Dupuy


UN News Centre

15 April 2013 – The United Nations highest court today began new hearings on a spectacularly situated 900-year-old Hindu temple that has long been a bone of contention between Cambodia and Thailand and has in recent years led to deadly clashes between the two South-East Asian neighbours.

Nearly two years ago, the Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered the two countries to withdraw their military personnel from around the Preah Vihear temple complex located in Cambodia, after renewed fatal skirmishes forced thousands of people to flee.

The site is inscribed on the World Heritage List which is drawn up by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). In inscribing it, UNESCO called the temple “an outstanding masterpiece of Khmer architecture, in terms of plan, decoration and relationship to the spectacular landscape environment” atop a 1,772-foot cliff.


The hearings stem from Cambodia’s request for the ICJ to interpret the judgment it rendered in 1962, which found that the temple was “situated in territory under the sovereignty of Cambodia” and that Thailand was under an obligation to “withdraw any military or police forces ... stationed by her at the temple, or in its vicinity on Cambodian territory.”

In its request filed in April 2011, Cambodia argues that while Thailand recognizes Cambodia’s sovereignty over the Temple itself, it does not appear to recognize the sovereignty of Cambodia over the vicinity of the temple.

In July 2011, the Court ordered both sides to withdraw their military personnel as part of provisional measures it said were urgently necessary because the potential risk of damage and renewed clashes were sufficiently serious.

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hun Sen should go to ICJ instead of Hor Nam Hong. Hun Sen is way better at present an argument, especially at international stage.

Hun Sen would scream at those Thai team: " Ah Pleur!, Ah Lanoung, Ah Gorb!"


Baay Kdaing

Anonymous said...


I agree with Baay Kdaing. Hun Sen should prove to the world that he is a strong man not just to the Cambodian. Ooop, I meant a strong clown.

Anonymous said...

Ah Hun Sen will even give a 5 hours speech. During the 5 hours speech, noone can question him or debate with him as he had done during the 5 hours debate.

Anonymous said...


Oh yes and then everybody would walk out in less than 10 minutes except the Khmer delegations and of course that would make Ah Hun Sen feeling like home again at the Hague.

Anonymous said...

If you Khmer don't stand your ground the Siem military thugs will slaughter you like the Muslim in Southern Thailand!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO7It6VNVmk

Anonymous said...

Lodge complain to ICJ is wasting a lot of money and times. If Cambodia joins development of Preah Vihear with Thailand, there will be no dispute with Thailand. Although Preah Vihear is belong to Cambodia but the main entrance is in Thailand's side and the main tourists also come from Thailand too. We are Khmer shall remember that when we ran away from Communist during 1980s Thailand had provided shelter to Khmer people. Thus, joint development of Preah Vihear with Thailand will bring peace and prosperity to both countries.

Pang Sokheoun, Secretary-General of SRP in Sweden.

Anonymous said...

AH Ping Ang. Have you got plastic surgery for your UGLY face yet?

Anonymous said...

@4:05 PM

Pang Sokheoun, you are a fucked up son of the bitch by saying that:
“We are Khmer shall remember that when we ran away from Communist during 1980s Thailand had offered shelter to Khmer people.”
It was the UN, the West and Japan who rented lands from the Thai to build the refugees’ camps for us, Khmer.
If it were up to the Thai, we all would be sent back to Cambodia down the cliffs of the Dangrek mountains range and then through the minefields.
Research your facts before posting, dummy.

Anonymous said...

Wondered KI and CIC so far have posted regading ICJ hearing from Thai's media only.

Anonymous said...

It wasn't real Pang Skhouen,its impersonater perhaps ah Mice or Ah pee Arch-yuon Hanoi's dog.If Pang Skhouen won't be phased the same messages all over the site like the works of Ah little Mouse/Mice or Ah Yuon-pee arch.Ah Yuon little Mouse/mice his limited english won't allows him the ability to think some thing new to say,but phased the old one that took him a lots of time to write that little message so he has to phased it again and again!

Pang Skhouen,please come out and defend your reputation that someone impersonated as you to posted it to ruin your good name.Are you sold out or incompetence due you are intoxication with your Secretary of SRP position? Hun sen kicked your Ass out of Cambodia,did he? If so,why stay quiet? Perhaps,you're too proud of your accomplishment as SRP-secretary general thatwise you bragged all over the sites about your position!!!!

Yobal Khmer

Anonymous said...

Yes, i agree, Ah Pang should come out to defend his stupid comments. Maybe Ah Pang is a chicken shit just like his master fugitive ScamSR. Maybe his mistress Sokunthear Som won't allow him to speak up anymore beside licking her dry pussy. or maybe he's too busy changing diaper for his mistress daughter( fb. Neak Neang Mlis). Too bad, God punish him for cheating on his ex-wife.

Anonymous said...

I'm writing to wish Pi Anh a wonderful anniversary, as Khmer people are killing each other.

Also, it is my sincere hope that the Cambodian government will do everything in its power to escalate the border dispute into a full-scale war so that Pi Anh and I can sit on our leather couch drinking beer and watching the Cambodian and Thai soldiers slaughter each other on our flat TV.

Again, Pi Anh and I are committed to conflict and welcoming a full-scale war with our friendly neighbor (Thailand), at the same time we must MAINTAIN peace and stability with our forever-friend Vietnam (our saviors). After all, we ALL want war, yet we value entertainment, and therefore, let the game begin. DON'T FORGET to have the beer coming--yes, steak and lobsters, too--as we're watching the Cambodian and Thai warriors slaughter each other.

LIFE IS GOOD!

From Phnom Penh

Anonymous said...


Ah Nguyen Van Mike and Ah Nguyen Pi Anh are currently busy sucking my cock at my mansion and that is reason their postings are fewer. Besides you have pounded them so badly they have to use somebody else names.

Decho Hun Sen