Thursday, February 24, 2011

Evacuees from Cambodia-Thai border urged to return home

February 23, 2011
Xinhua

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's wife Bun Rany on Wednesday encouraged the evacuees from the deadly armed clashes on the disputed border between Cambodia and Thailand to return home as the tension has eased.

Bun Rany, who is the president of Cambodian Red Cross, visited 2,686 families in a refugees camp in Preah Vihear province's Kulen district. The remaining evacuees were out of the total 3,200 families who fled the clashes on Feb. 4-7.

"She has advised those evacuees to return home as the tension has eased," Nhim Vanda, the first vice-president of the Cambodian National Committee for Disaster Management, told Xinhua by telephone.


"She also informed those evacuees about the ASEAN's support to send Indonesian observers to the border area to ensure a permanent ceasefire," he added.

Nhim Vanda said: "Evacuees are still afraid to return home, but I believed that they will begin to go back after Bun Rany's remarks."

Cambodia and Thailand have had border conflict just a week after Cambodia's Preah Vihear temple was awarded World Heritage Site on July 7, 2008.

The territorial dispute over a 4.6 square kms of scrub around the temple resulted in military build-up along the border and periodic clashes between Cambodian and Thai soldiers.

The latest clashes unleashed a barrage of artillery shells on both sides of the border, causing casualties on both sides, and tens of thousands of the two countries' villagers to flee home.

The informal ASEAN foreign ministers' meeting in the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Feb. 22 agreed to send Indonesian observers to monitor ceasefire between the two member states.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Angkor wat didn't built by Khmer at all. Angkor wat belong to Champa! look at the king Suryavarman II in the early 12th century as his state. Varman is not khmer original name at all this kind of name is only can be find in Champ name that is indicated that Amgkor is not belong to Cambodian people at all.

Ms. Rattana Keo you always wrong because you just a woman.

Anonymous said...

Cambodia goverment block Ki or Khmerization.

It is the same way that Kherization limite the freedom of speech and expression toward Ms. Rattana Keo. So it is very fair!

Ms. Rattana Keo is hero of new khmer generation. She repeats talking about Kos Trol that's all but Khmerization website mop her down.

Inconclusion every websites they are always serving their master and purpose, even KI or Khmerization. Ms. Rattana Keo's case is an classic example of Freedom of speech and expression that has been mopped by Khmerization. She just repeat about Kos Trol and in her comment has nothing to do with rude languge or her own benifit at all. She speaks the true about what are happening in Cambodia and a lot of people including Kherization anti her comment. So this is the same way that Cambodia goverment do the same to Ki or Khmerization ( limit freedom of speech and Expression )

Anonymous said...

If Thai or Khmer thousand and thousand evacuees returned back and forth,they got tired and became mad
with both govt;they will wake up,stand,rise up against them.
So, the wind of change will beat them down.
Sometimes Thai and Khmer have war among themselves or some countries
intervene to this WAR.