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Showing posts with label Thai false claims on Khmer history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thai false claims on Khmer history. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
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Thai Web Site Spreads False History: Cambodia
By Kong Sothanarith, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
13 July 2009
Original report from Phnom Penh
13 July 2009
The Cambodian Embassy in Bangkok formally requested that the Thai government withdraw a video clip from a Web site Monday, claiming the site spread false historical information.
The Web site, www.ilovethailand.org, features a video claiming the Siamese Empire, which predated modern-day Thailand, lost the provinces of Battambang, Siem Reap and Preah Vihear to Cambodia.
In fact, both the Siamese and Khmer empires battled back and forth for control of territory over the centuries.
In its note Monday, the embassy said, “it is the Kingdom of Cambodia which had lost much of its territory from the Khmer empire.”
Thailand and Cambodia are currently engaged in a military standoff over contested border patches, and nationalism on both sides has led to violence in the past.
The Web site, www.ilovethailand.org, features a video claiming the Siamese Empire, which predated modern-day Thailand, lost the provinces of Battambang, Siem Reap and Preah Vihear to Cambodia.
In fact, both the Siamese and Khmer empires battled back and forth for control of territory over the centuries.
In its note Monday, the embassy said, “it is the Kingdom of Cambodia which had lost much of its territory from the Khmer empire.”
Thailand and Cambodia are currently engaged in a military standoff over contested border patches, and nationalism on both sides has led to violence in the past.
Thursday, May 07, 2009
Tamone Thom and Tamone Touch temples are clearly situated within the territory of Cambodia: You Aye
Re: "Travelling a royal road to the Khmer Empire", April 22.
Letter to The Nation
Letter to The Nation
In this article, the author wrote that Phimai is "the birthplace of a number of Khmer kings" and that Tamone Thom - not Ta Muen Thom - temple is inside Thai territory (Surin province).
To provide your readers with more accurate information about the Khmer Empire and the true story of Tamone Thom, I wish to draw your attention to the following:
The world is well aware that during the prosperous Khmer Empire, the Khmer kings built thousands of temples including Phimai and Phnom Rung. Claiming that Phimai was the birthplace of a number of Khmer kings is a groundless affirmation.
Regarding Tamone Thom and Tamone Touch temples, according to the Minutes on the Demarcation N22, on Sector 4 (Le Proces Verbal d'abornement N22 sur Secteur 4) dated December 30, 1908, of the Commissions of the Delimitation of Frontiers between Indochina and Siam, and the Topographic Plate Indications of the boundary pillar N23 in that region, these two temples are clearly situated within the territory of Cambodia.
HE Mrs. You Aye
AMBASSADOR OF THE KINGDOM OF CAMBODIA
To provide your readers with more accurate information about the Khmer Empire and the true story of Tamone Thom, I wish to draw your attention to the following:
The world is well aware that during the prosperous Khmer Empire, the Khmer kings built thousands of temples including Phimai and Phnom Rung. Claiming that Phimai was the birthplace of a number of Khmer kings is a groundless affirmation.
Regarding Tamone Thom and Tamone Touch temples, according to the Minutes on the Demarcation N22, on Sector 4 (Le Proces Verbal d'abornement N22 sur Secteur 4) dated December 30, 1908, of the Commissions of the Delimitation of Frontiers between Indochina and Siam, and the Topographic Plate Indications of the boundary pillar N23 in that region, these two temples are clearly situated within the territory of Cambodia.
HE Mrs. You Aye
AMBASSADOR OF THE KINGDOM OF CAMBODIA
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