Preah Vihear temple: Disputed land Cambodian, court rules
BBC News | 11 Nov. 2013
The 900-year-old Preah Vihear temple is a World Heritage site
Cambodia
should have sovereignty over disputed land around the Preah Vihear
temple on the border with Thailand, the UN's highest court has ruled.
The International Court of Justice in the Hague said Thailand must withdraw any soldiers from the area.
The long-standing rift has previously led to clashes between the two nations, who both lay claim to the land.
A 1962 verdict by the court declared the temple to be Cambodian, but did not rule on the area around it.
Cambodia sought a clarification of the ruling two years ago, after fighting erupted.
Delivering the judgement, Peter Tomka, president of the
International Court of Justice, said the court had decided "that
Cambodia had sovereignty over the whole territory of the promontory of
Preah Vihear".
"In consequence, Thailand was under an obligation to withdraw
from that territory the Thai military or police forces or other guards
or keepers that were stationed there," he said.
Fears of violence
Both sides agreed to withdraw troops from the disputed area in December 2011.
On Saturday, the chief of Cambodia's military forces on the
Thailand border called an emergency meeting after Thai aircraft were
seen flying low around disputed land near the temple.
However, Cambodian regional commander General Srey Deuk told
the BBC he expected no problems with the Thai military after Monday's
verdict.
He said no troop reinforcements had been brought up to the temple.
But fears remain about possible violence in border villages, stirred up by nationalist groups.
One Thai nationalist group, the Thai Patriotic Network, has
said it will reject any judgement from the ICJ, according to The Nation
newspaper. The group has already petitioned the court to throw out the
case.
The territory has been a point of contention for over a century.
The decision to award the temple to Cambodia in 1962 rankled
Thailand, but the issue lay largely moribund due to Cambodia's civil
war, which only ended in the 1990s.
It came to the forefront again when Cambodia applied for
Unesco World Heritage status in 2008, which it won - angering Thai
nationalists. Both sides began a build up of troops in the area.
The ICJ ruling is an interpretation of the 1962 judgement and cannot be appealed.
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