April 7, 2010
BIG VICTORY FOR CAMBODIA REGARDING BORDER ISSUE
I am extremely pleased to learn that our Government has finally recognized that the so-called temporary border post # 185 made up of six wooden poles which I pulled out in Svay Rieng province on October 25, 2009, was not a real and legal border marker. Moreover, officials from the Council of Ministers have specified in official documents submitted to the Court that that so-called temporary border post was actually located at a distance of “approximately” 516 meters from the real and legal borderline!
The corresponding official documents including a detailed map with precise measurements, are presented here.
The Government and I have now reached the same conclusion regarding border delineation in Samraong commune in Svay Rieng province’s Chantrea district. We all base our assessment and measurements on the French-era SGI 1/100,000 Map that has been deposited at the United Nations since 1964. My related work and the enlightening report by Professor Régis Caloz are presented here.
This is really a big victory for Cambodia when it comes to ensuring the respect for our country’s territorial integrity as enshrined in the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements and in the Kingdom’s 1993 Constitution.
At least on this specific point of the borderline, all Cambodians from all political parties agree with the Government decision to officially dismantle the fake and illegal border post # 185 which I suppressed last October when helping Khmer farmers defend their rice fields against land confiscation associated with border encroachment. Similarly, the nearby and also fake and illegal border post # 184 was suppressed by the Cambodian and Vietnamese authorities themselves last November.
There are two automatic implications from the above Government “technical” decision:
1- The two Khmer farmers who have been arrested following the October 25 incident, Ms. Meas Srey and Mr. Prum Chea, must be immediately released from prison. They did nothing wrong when helping me pull out the above-mentioned six (commercially worthless) wooden poles that had been illegally planted on Ms. Meas Srey’s rice field, i.e. on a private land without the consent of its legitimate owner.
2- All Khmer farmers including Ms. Meas Srey and Mr. Prum Chea, who have lost their land because of “technical errors” in the border demarcation process in the last few years, must be given back their property.
Sam Rainsy
Member of Parliament
The corresponding official documents including a detailed map with precise measurements, are presented here.
The Government and I have now reached the same conclusion regarding border delineation in Samraong commune in Svay Rieng province’s Chantrea district. We all base our assessment and measurements on the French-era SGI 1/100,000 Map that has been deposited at the United Nations since 1964. My related work and the enlightening report by Professor Régis Caloz are presented here.
This is really a big victory for Cambodia when it comes to ensuring the respect for our country’s territorial integrity as enshrined in the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements and in the Kingdom’s 1993 Constitution.
At least on this specific point of the borderline, all Cambodians from all political parties agree with the Government decision to officially dismantle the fake and illegal border post # 185 which I suppressed last October when helping Khmer farmers defend their rice fields against land confiscation associated with border encroachment. Similarly, the nearby and also fake and illegal border post # 184 was suppressed by the Cambodian and Vietnamese authorities themselves last November.
There are two automatic implications from the above Government “technical” decision:
1- The two Khmer farmers who have been arrested following the October 25 incident, Ms. Meas Srey and Mr. Prum Chea, must be immediately released from prison. They did nothing wrong when helping me pull out the above-mentioned six (commercially worthless) wooden poles that had been illegally planted on Ms. Meas Srey’s rice field, i.e. on a private land without the consent of its legitimate owner.
2- All Khmer farmers including Ms. Meas Srey and Mr. Prum Chea, who have lost their land because of “technical errors” in the border demarcation process in the last few years, must be given back their property.
Sam Rainsy
Member of Parliament
2 comments:
Wonderful News!
This clarification of Khmer/Youn border issue is exposing the deceptive Youn's sneaky tactics. This encroachment into Cambodia isn't a new thing. It had been proven many times that Youn can't take Cambodia territory by military forces, so Youn is trying the quiet, sneaky, and cowardly ways. By intentionally placing border markers and using the Hanoi puppet Cambodian government to agree to it, Youn hope to gain some extra meters of land from Cambodia. Whatever it takes, as long as Youn gain, Youn will do it. Thanks to SRP, 516 meters(roughly half kilometer) of Cambodian land is safe for now. 516 meters of land means, more land for Cambodian to use.
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