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Saturday 5 March 2011

[Cambodian] PM: Thai Aggression Is the Main Cause of Border Dispute with Cambodia


By SOKMOM Nimul

Phnom Penh, March 4, 2011 AKP –Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen, Prime Minister (pictured) of the Kingdom of Cambodia, has reiterated that Cambodia-Thailand border dispute is mainly due to Thai encroachment on Cambodian territory, not due to the listing of Preah Vihear Temple as a World Heritage Site.

“How about the Thai invasions in 1954 and 1962? Was it also because of the listing of [Preah Vihear Temple]?” asked the Cambodian premier at the celebration of the 13th National Cultural Day held here on Thursday, adding that this is Thailand’s ambition.

He said he was very surprised when UNESCO Special Envoy Mr. Koichiro Matsuura told him that Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya asked UNESCO to de-list Preah Vihear Temple from the World Heritage Site.

Mr. Matsuura replied to them that the de-listing is impossible because the temple is of outstanding universal value, he said.

On the occasion, Samdech Techo Hun Sen also called on Indonesia, the current Chair of ASEAN, to urgently send its observers to Cambodian border side if Thailand is still reluctant to accept.

According to the Cambodian prime minister, last Saturday, Indonesia sent Cambodia and Thailand the terms of reference including procedures of control and obligation of Indonesian observers at the disputed areas. “We replied to the Indonesia’s request not later than 24 hours, and provided 14 points to Indonesia to observe, and we will open further if necessary,” he said, adding, “The observers will be for 12 months and will extend further.”

“Up to now the Bangkok government said that its foreign minister and defense minister have not met each other on this issue, and its army chief said the observers will not be allowed to observe inside, just in limited areas,” said Samdech Techo Hun Sen. “If Thai does not receive observers, Cambodia will receive alone.”

Premier Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen further reiterated that there will be no bilateral negotiations with Thailand on border disputed area. If Thailand wants to negotiate, it has to ask Indonesia to convene the meeting.

Cambodia continue to negotiate bilaterally with Thailand only in the fields of trade, tourism, etc., he underlined. –AKP

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hun sen he so strong that what real leader characteristict is, Rainsy too much emotional and weak he was an elite spoided kid, he have no toughness to lead. man with emotion mean he not put up all strength and effort yet, all company should looke out and very early find out those emotional weakness employee, get them out befor they destroy your company, one bad cell could spread weakness faster than productive toughness worker. mike

Anonymous said...

Hun Sen is trying to look tough against Thailand, but for 2 and a half years he has bowed down to every Thai demand and has no capacity to resolve border conflict with Thailand. He only said tough words, but act so soft with Thailand. Thai troops can't invade Preah Vihear in 2008 if Hun Sen deployed more troops to defend the Preah Vihear border. The reality was Hun Sen deployed more troops around his Tuol Krosaing home to protect himself rather than deploying troops to defend Cambodia. This is a real Khmer traitor.

Anonymous said...

will you see people in some positive ways, only stupid and madness man who attack the enemy when we are not well prepare yet, at that time we do not know the strength of enemy troop yet, if we can't evaluate the strength and weakness of enermy we can't fiquer it out the victory over enemy. Hun sen he did the rigth things.

Anonymous said...

It does not matter how tough the Khmer soldiers are; however, if war erupts, it will not be a walk in the park, when dealing with this formidable foe's (Thailand)tenacious ambition. Certainly, the Khmer government already assessed the strengths and weaknesses in preparation for the battle ahead. In other words, the Khmer military readiness is poised to carry out order from the commander in chief.

Also, it is critically imperative that we DO NOT underestimate our enemy's tenacity.

College dropped out

Anonymous said...

Hun Sen did the right thing by derelict in his duty to protect Khmer territory? By being lax and negligent of a duty to protect one's own nation against foreign aggressors is tantamount to treason. To use national resources to protect one's own power like what Hun Sen had done and is doing now is traitorous in nature.

We are not talking about the strength of the enemies here. We are talking about the defense against the enemies in the first place. Of course Cambodian military strength is no match for Thailand's military might. But if Hun Sen deployed enough troops on the Preah vihear border in 2008, when the Thai yellow shirt threatened to march en masse to Preah Vihear temple, then we could prevent and stop the Thai invasion on 15th July 2008. What we saw at that time was no troop to defend at the area at all. Thai troops just walked and marched in like they were walking into their own barracks.

You talked about how well prepared is Cambodian army. This is the point. Hun Sen is very well prepared in term of deploying troops to protect his mansion and his own powers, but he is not well prepared to deploy troops to defend Cambodia's borders. Why? Because all the troops had been deployed around his mansions, so no troops to deploy along the border. All the billions of dollars that he stole from the nation and the people must be returned to the nation and the people and spent to purchase weapons, tanks, jets and artillery for the defense of Cambodia, not to defend his own powers. Hun Sen's fate would be like Mubarak in Egypt, Ben Ali in Tunisia and Gaddaffi in Libya if he does not give up powers voluntarily. The people who will depose him would be those from within his own party like Sar Kheng, Ke Kim Yan, Sok An, Heng Samrin and so on. Just wait and see.

Anonymous said...

Bravo, well put it. All in all the innocent people are the victims of war.

Anonymous said...

4:57 you are Khmerization or Rainsy it piontless to say that Hun sen unprepair during 2008 while Thai troop walk in into Cambodia, did you see Khmer sodier, you see them right? the enemy was out number and they do not have reason to make war yet, we have to starte somewhere well kknown to the international or the people first, and no one where to attack, if you smart you will not comment like ignorance people like this, why you are so good in criticism are you blind noe we controle 100 percent both on battle and on internatioal deplomatic don't it appear a perfect work for Hun sen did sofar didn't he?, you think queer rainsy could do that? he could not wasn't it?. onlt intergrity previal, you KI team and idiot boss Rainsy are totaly work against your own Khmer people

Anonymous said...

correction
you are Khmerization or Rainsy it piontless to say that Hun sen unprepair during 2008 while Thai troop walk in into Cambodia, did you see Khmer sodier, you see them right? the enemy was out of number and they do not have reason to make a war yet, we have to starte from somewhere and mame it well kknown to the international or the people first, and no one know where to attack, if you smart you will not comments like ignorance people like this, why you are so good in criticism, are you blind now we controle 100 percent both on battle and on internatioal deplomatic, don't it appear a perfect work for Hun sen he did sofar didn't he?, you think queer rainsy could do that? Sam he could not do it, wasn't it?. only intergrity previal, you KI team and idiot boss Rainsy are totaly work against your own Khmer people mike

Anonymous said...

Mike, I am not Khmerization nor am I Rainsy. I'm just a regular reader of this blog. Sure, Hun Sen did send many Cambodian soldiers there, but only a few days after Thai troops walked freely into Wat Keo Sikha Kiri Sawara already. But on the day the three Thai monk and nuns jumped the border fence on 15th July 2008, there were few soldiers or no soldiers at all, but just a few policemen only, because it took only 20 Thai troops to walk into the pagoda without any attempt to stop them because there were no Cambodian troops there. This is because Hun Sen never care about protecting Cambodia but only care about protecting his power. If Sam Rainsy was in power, he could have done a much better job than Hun Sen. He is an economist, not a temple boy like Hun Sen. When he was minister of finance from 1993-1994 he had collected a lot of revenues and taxes in such a short period, but Hun Sen sacked him because Hun Sen doesn't want smart people in the government who could challenge his power or gain more popularity than him. Return to border again, Cambodia lost a lot of land to the Vietnamese side because Hun Sen never care or are too scared to protest against Vietnamese encroachments. Hun Sen also doesn't care about the Thai side either, that's why Thai soldiers can encroach many places along the border. Cambodia has many chances to bring the case to international stage, like to UN or international court, but Hun Sen hesitated that's it gives Thailand more chance to move in deeper into Cambodian territory and to attack Preah Vihear with its artillery shells. Mike, you have to remember that you are trying to defend a human rights abuser, a corrupt leader and Khmer traitor here. So, do you think you have any conscience and any brain?

Khmerization said...

Dear debaters, please debate in a civilised manner without resorting to any name-calling please, and please don't involve me. as I said before, you can debate freely, but must avoid using offensive language or profanities. If you continue to use inappropriate language and words, I have no choice but to delete your comments. Thank you.

Anonymous said...

you are not Rainsy but you are rainsy supporter. I am sorry to Khmerization.
To the 9:02 you know alote of what is going on in Cambodia and your comments are sound good to SRP supporter I believe you are lives in oversea. You, me and some of our reader in this blog or KI blog are try to make our opinion ben heard, that was good piont but if we forcus too much on nagetive or wrong doing we didn't see or learn the positive from each other, to be fair we must mak it balance betweent Mr. Rainsy and Mr. Hun sen. we know Hunsen did alote of mistake in the past but people can learn from past experiences, now he doing the right thing for our nation. if you are runing your own business or runing the country ero are ineviable, as well as Rainsy runing SRP today. We must gave credit to superior side of our leader both of them. I am very bussy man but I did see KI and some Rainsy supporter are outragest and put their wrong believe on past experience and fale futur vision created by rainsy. in the Past Youn tooke Khmer krom, he arouse anger agianst youn and HUn sen, in the futur he put vision that for us to imagine that all Khmer next generation will have no land for their children he arouse, arouse, and arouse anger against Youn and hun sen, thise kinds of ideosensory very dangerouse used by Hitler and mosuliny, and Rainsy he work for Thai that for real. The thai if they wand to invade our country they put stratergy 5 to 10 years ahead, by first destroy our allian vietnam, then separet us and at last Thai will destroy us now you clearly see Thai supported Ki, and double agent rainsy stratergy are working very well, wasn't it true?. who are the real trator? Rainsy was, wasn't he? Mike

Anonymous said...

Hun Sen is the real traitor, Rainsy is not a traitor because he is not in power and never sold out to any foreign country. Khmer fought with Thailand for nearly 800 years and Vietnam fought with Khmer longer than that, from Tonkin down to Cochinchina, that's why we lost Kampuchea Krom in around 1623. Everyone Know that we lost Kampuchea Krom to Vietnam and have you heard of "Kompoup Te Ong" story? Hun Sen committed a lot of mistakes in the past because he was a Khmer Rouge commander and he committed a lot mistakes now because he is a traitor and a puppet of Vietnam. Land-grab, human rights abuses, corruption and many more. I know that and you know that, but why you still support him and always curse the real patriot like Sam Rainsy. If you have a personal problems with Rainsy then it is not appropriate to let your anger out at him in this blog. Rainsy is not a Thai puppet, but Hun sen is a real Vietnam puppet and a real traitor. I know you live in America, so if you think Hun Sen is the best then why did you escape to live in America? You should live under Hun Sen's regime if you think it is a good regime. The fact that you escaped from Hun Sen's regime proved that you hate the regime or you don't like the regime. Just tell me how you escape to America? By claiming you are a Rainsy supporter so you can claim political asylum there, but in fact you are a Hun Sen supporter? If somebody report you to U.S immigration, they can deport you back to Cambodia for false claim.

Anonymous said...

I am in Cambodia and I pay a visite to USA 2 months a year, I never work in US and I alway have my own business in Cambodia, as you said I may have personal problem with Rainsy, no, I am not, I dont know who you are, but for me it take me maximume 6 months to find out what my mission with rainsy worth something or not, The answer is not, not and not at all? rainsy set up SRP is like SRP charity or SRP company, my man it never enought money for rainsy, event though you give hime ton of money, and may be sacrifice to burn yourself to support him, and the result is Rainsy will never gave you any gratitud,or love back to you, you may know that yourself right? aren't you?. I kept saying that Rainsy is Thai double agent you want proofe, here it is, Rainsy set up and office in Thailand, with the Thai support, some of my activist Piseth, Horm, and sareth are living in that office for more than a years during escape in 2005-
2006, and the granad attack in 1997 Rainsy he wear the bulletproof, what does it mean to you? and Chim Chany he got hit by the bullet on his lege serousely injude, with many other supporter. you may put on believe to Rainsy for futur personal benifite promissed but let me reassure you, that promise are in the air, rainsy will never mean what he said. you have to thank me for reveal this to you, rainsy if you analy a bit you can easily tell that Rainsy is not a truthworthy man at all, Rainsy integrity is Zero, hope you heard me clear about Rainsy business. rainsy call on for jasmine, what doese it mean? does he car about chaose, lossing life and business suffer and for sure the Thai will immediatly occupy preah vihear, that is what you want? rainsy never care about any Khmer, but his embition for power and his Family wealthy rich from khmer slave, are you happy being tools used by rainsy, then you are not true to yourself and your vision of helping to make Khmer stronger. I am Mike I truely care about econmy stability and pesued the happiness of my belove Khmer. Rgards, Mike

Anonymous said...

Mike, I don't have time to further engage in a debate with you, but I ask you to think about national interests, not personal vengeance like what you have done in the last few months. What I see in you is a very angry person, full of vengeance against Sam Rainsy. You have launched continuous attacks on Rainsy in this blog non-stop. I wish you come to this or any other blog and debate some senses, not launching a personal attack on anyone. If you have a personal problem with Rainsy, just deal it with him personally in other venues because this is not a suitable forum for you to set old scores with Rainsy because you might have offended some readers here. I am not a Rainsy supporter, but I'm no fan of Hun sen either. The persons you mentioned about opening office in Thailand are actually those who escaped from Hun Sen's persecution, they escaped from Hun Sen's death squad. You know already, after 1998 election and 2005 supplemental treaty, many Rainsy supporters have been arrested like Cheam Channy. So these people in Thailand they escaped from Hun Sen's death squad.