DEFENSE OF CAMBODIA’S TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY MOVES A STEP FORWARD
24 January 2010
The unprecedented evidence of border encroachment announced in our yesterday’s statement (see below) is now available. It is presented in both Khmer and English. Please click at http://tinyurl.com/yzkd94t.
All the alleged border demarcation posts examined in our study (# 184 through #187), including the one Sam Rainsy uprooted last October (# 185), are illegal because they were fraudulently erected well within Cambodia’s territory. The wooden poles were wrongly planted between 300 meters and 500 meters from the legal border as defined in French SGI 1952 1/100,000 maps deposited at the United Nations by the Royal Cambodian Government under then-Prince Norodom Sihanouk in March 1964. The French-drawn maps are corroborated by US Army 1966 1/50,000 maps as far as the international border is concerned in this portion of Cambodia’s Svay Rieng province.
We have got satellite pictures of the border areas and GPS locations/geographic coordinates of all the fraudulent border markers. We have used state-of-the-art computer programs (available upon request) to convert the GPS locations of the fraudulent border markers into UTM coordinates so as to precisely position those fraudulent border markers on the above-mentioned maps.
Any question related to the defense of Cambodia’s territorial integrity can be asked directly to opposition leader Sam Rainsy during the radio call-in show scheduled for tomorrow.
SRP Members of Parliament
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