By Ratha Visal
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
A government official from the border with Vietnam along the province of Ratanakiri, indicated the Vietnamese [authority] side crossed the border to prevent Cambodian border guards from building houses to lodge their families. The Vietnamese claim that the lands belong to Vietnam.
An anonymous source indicated that border guard policemen based at the Lom village station, O’Yadaw district, plans to build their homes inside Cambodian territories, about 500 to 800 meters from their border station, however, the Vietnamese authority does not agree with it.
Heng Puthirat, the border guard police deputy-chief based on Lom village, admitted that the incident did indeed occur. He said that since the beginning of April 2007, the Vietnamese side came in several times to prevent them from building homes: “There are 2 locations [to build homes?], our location is located about 800 meters from the border line, but the Vietnamese side still prevents us [from building homes].”
Ratanakiri province is bordering with Vietnam’s Gia Lai province. The border guards reported that several years ago, the Vietnamese side move their border observation tower inside the white zone, a disputed area considered as a no man’s land, they also built a road and a bridge inside the white zone. Currently, the Vietnamese have not moved back out of the disputed area yet.
Ratanakiri province police chief said that he authorized the border guards to build their homes inside Cambodian territories, and that these areas are not located within the disputed border zone.
Var Kim Hong, the president of the government border committee, claimed on several occasions that Vietnam and Cambodia have agreed to temporarily preserve the border in which both sides have installed their border guards in 1997, while waiting for a mutual agreement on border delimitation.
On 28 April 2007, Var Kim Hong said that the technical working group and Cambodia-Vietnam border experts have met for about one week in order to find a resolution on the border dispute in Ratanakiri province, however, he declined to comment on the results of the meeting. “We cannot answer about it yet because they are still working on it for about one week already, the two parties are working together in Phnom Penh.”
Nguyen Phu Trong, the Vietnamese Assembly chairman, visited Cambodia, however, there was no indication on his schedule that the border issue will be raised during his visit.
Nevertheless, on February 2007, Hun Sen inaugurated a road section from Banlung district to the Vietnamese border. The funding for the road construction came from a $25 million loan by the Vietnamese government. But, up to now, the plan for the road construction is stalled, and no official dare talk officially about the cause of the stalling.
An anonymous source indicated that border guard policemen based at the Lom village station, O’Yadaw district, plans to build their homes inside Cambodian territories, about 500 to 800 meters from their border station, however, the Vietnamese authority does not agree with it.
Heng Puthirat, the border guard police deputy-chief based on Lom village, admitted that the incident did indeed occur. He said that since the beginning of April 2007, the Vietnamese side came in several times to prevent them from building homes: “There are 2 locations [to build homes?], our location is located about 800 meters from the border line, but the Vietnamese side still prevents us [from building homes].”
Ratanakiri province is bordering with Vietnam’s Gia Lai province. The border guards reported that several years ago, the Vietnamese side move their border observation tower inside the white zone, a disputed area considered as a no man’s land, they also built a road and a bridge inside the white zone. Currently, the Vietnamese have not moved back out of the disputed area yet.
Ratanakiri province police chief said that he authorized the border guards to build their homes inside Cambodian territories, and that these areas are not located within the disputed border zone.
Var Kim Hong, the president of the government border committee, claimed on several occasions that Vietnam and Cambodia have agreed to temporarily preserve the border in which both sides have installed their border guards in 1997, while waiting for a mutual agreement on border delimitation.
On 28 April 2007, Var Kim Hong said that the technical working group and Cambodia-Vietnam border experts have met for about one week in order to find a resolution on the border dispute in Ratanakiri province, however, he declined to comment on the results of the meeting. “We cannot answer about it yet because they are still working on it for about one week already, the two parties are working together in Phnom Penh.”
Nguyen Phu Trong, the Vietnamese Assembly chairman, visited Cambodia, however, there was no indication on his schedule that the border issue will be raised during his visit.
Nevertheless, on February 2007, Hun Sen inaugurated a road section from Banlung district to the Vietnamese border. The funding for the road construction came from a $25 million loan by the Vietnamese government. But, up to now, the plan for the road construction is stalled, and no official dare talk officially about the cause of the stalling.
18 comments:
This is just the one of accomplishments that CPP under Hun Sen, Heng Samrin and Chea Sim's leadership have offered to Cambodia. From day to day their accomplistments are:
- Maintain the power until they get old and die
- Earn the money of each day 10000 but give back to poor Cambodian people 2 dollars
- All illegal VN flow into Cambodia to help increasing votes
- Allow more treaties and agreements with VN to cede more sovereignty and land to them in order to pay gratitude as well as to help protecting their lasting power
- More border land of Cambodia will be more ceded to VN in compensating of recept landslide victory of Commune Election and will be more for 2008....
So we can observe more accomlishments of CPP
Hey, life doesn't evolved around
the border, you know?
Why would anyone want to live so
close to the damned border anyway?
I would built at least 2-3km away
from the border and leave the grey
zone for trading.
to 2:43,
Yeah, true personally I would not ever go live near the border for security, social, and other reasons. But, having said that, it is a country's dignity and sovereignty to do anything within its border. In that sense, the act of hindering a country's citizens by another country is violation of the latter's independence, dignity and sovereignty. What rights do they, the VN, have to breached into Cambodia's borders, and interfere with Cambodia's private citizens' affairs? VN sees Cambodia as an ant in Indochina, and that mindset gives it a sense of immunity whatever and however they do to Cambodia. This is particularly true because we beg from them to foot the bill for the costs of border demarcation. We beg them for investments, roads, infrastructure, everything. This is a sad situation, but it is true, and I am not surprised that we are treated that way. Maybe a change of leadership may lead us somewhere for the better. Can't wait for 2008!
To 2:43PM
you said who wanted to live near the border? I wanted to live near the border so that your Yuon family won't get in and building houses in Cambodia. Any one of them are always trying to move in Cambodian land, so tell your Vietcong family stop taking land from Cambodia. If any of them move in Cambodia border, they will be beheaded. All Yuon should be killed like Pol Pot regime. Don't forget million Khmer are experts in Killing. I know you are Yuon.
Okay, I know what you mean, guys.
But here, we are talking about
disputing over peanut, not to
mention the demarcation project is
not even completed. I would wait
until then. Anyhow, I ain't going
to spill no blood for over a few
hundred meters. I believe peace,
frienship, and prosperity are
more important. Moreover, if
you keep on fighting, no one is
going to be educated, and you will
produce more evil generations. If
you go my way, we all can take a
break and get some education, in
particular moral education, and
who know, with eveyone educated,
we may end up not needing border.
Just live wherever you please,
hehehe.
4:28 PM had too much fish sauce (Nuoc Mam) last night!
You motherfuc ker Vietnamese and Ah Hun Sen fucking dong Cambodia lost all Kampuchea Krom to your fucking Viet already, Do Mair ah Chkers Yuon!
Eh Ah/Mi 2:43 PM,
Your brain has been fucked up, ass hole! You don't think right! You need to admit yourself to the psychiatric hospital, weirdo! Or if you could not afford your fee, JUST PULL THE TRICKER ON YOUR FUCKING BRAIN, MOTHER FUCKER!
AH JOY MA-RAY! PLER NIS KOR PLER!
Every time there is a dispute over the border between KHMERS and THAI or KHMERS and YUONS ,the CPP is always found KHMERS as troublemakers or at false.This govt is something.
Well, if you are not troublemakers,
why didn't you solved the border
problem before we toke over. You
had 25 years, and what the fuck
were you waiting for? And since
you are a failure as you always
were, just shut the fuck up, and
let us solve the problem for you,
alright?
And dumbo 9:17, we have nothing to
do with Ah Khmer-Yuon's territory,
and we don't want to know shit
about it. They lost their land to
Vietnam on their own stupidity. So
stop don't complaint to us. Take it
to your corrupted UN, alright?
This people talking shit all the time and do not thing in real life. that is the khmer way.......of thinking.
fucjk a cho maria yuoin shit dumb ass above, tell your yuoin shit boss and dogs to stop interfering in khmer. border treaties don't mean anything, with ah yuon, you see. ah hun shit, heng samre don't give shit as it is noty his fucking mother land.
i will put a bullet to its heads
True, but there is no law against
talk so long it is not defamation
or slander. We do, however, have
law against disrupting law and
order.
NAI ACHHKUOT 3:53AM,Let's you solve the problem is worrysome to us why because you kept giving khmer's land aways just to please your neighbors . Your regime did fuck up khmers big time....
That's right! Ah/Mi Chhkuot! Brainless washed up by the million of innocent khmer's blood! I need to open up your fucking brain to see what is really wrong with you! IT STILL DOES NOT EVEN MAKE SENSE EITHER EVEN IF YOU ARE A FUCKING VIETNAMESE!
11:18, it aint free to solve the
problem. You win some. and you
lose some; that is why we call it
'negotiation'.
There should be no negotiation with the Vietcong!!!!
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