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The Thai People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) supporters, frothing at the mouth, cheered and clapped as Thai troops damaged the ancient Preah Vihear temple during the armed clashes on 4-7 February 2011 that the extreme Thai nationalists claim was “stolen” from Thailand. The PAD has been trying to start a war with us, using the pathetic excuse that an ancient Khmer temple belong to them.
The temple is clearly belong to us. This is all a displacement activity by manic right-wing royalists who are afraid that they are beginning to become irrelevant. No doubt some PAD activists want another military coup in Thailand and a war with Cambodia. They will not be on the border facing the bullets themselves, however. It will be the poor conscripts and villagers who will pay the price. Recently, a joint PAD-Democrat Party team deliberately intruded into Cambodian territory in order to cause an international incident. They were promptly arrested and PAD nutter Veera Somkwamkid is still in a Cambodian prison.
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, fresh from murdering 91 unarmed pro-democracy demonstrators in May 2010, has said that he is not afraid of going to war with Cambodia. He wouldn't be. He won't be dying, nor will any of his rich relatives. His foreign minister Kasit Piromya is a well-known PAD member and has been itching for other people to die in a pointless war with Cambodia for years.
Thailand digs the hole deeper and deeper and is not able to get out from it. The way to cure the scars from the past is that Thailand should overhaul and review its history textbooks to respect neighboring countries and have a good look at themselves .
Thai academics have warned the government of going to war with Cambodia. "Even we won the war, we won't have the ownership of Prear Vihear temple and we risk being labelled as an outlawed country by the international community. It is irreversible to have the right to appeal the International Court of Justice's verdict because 10 years of appeal limitation has overlapped and we haven't done anything in the last 50 years and why now ? Let it goes before we embarrass ourselves any further", said one Thai academic.
The Thai People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) supporters, frothing at the mouth, cheered and clapped as Thai troops damaged the ancient Preah Vihear temple during the armed clashes on 4-7 February 2011 that the extreme Thai nationalists claim was “stolen” from Thailand. The PAD has been trying to start a war with us, using the pathetic excuse that an ancient Khmer temple belong to them.
The temple is clearly belong to us. This is all a displacement activity by manic right-wing royalists who are afraid that they are beginning to become irrelevant. No doubt some PAD activists want another military coup in Thailand and a war with Cambodia. They will not be on the border facing the bullets themselves, however. It will be the poor conscripts and villagers who will pay the price. Recently, a joint PAD-Democrat Party team deliberately intruded into Cambodian territory in order to cause an international incident. They were promptly arrested and PAD nutter Veera Somkwamkid is still in a Cambodian prison.
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, fresh from murdering 91 unarmed pro-democracy demonstrators in May 2010, has said that he is not afraid of going to war with Cambodia. He wouldn't be. He won't be dying, nor will any of his rich relatives. His foreign minister Kasit Piromya is a well-known PAD member and has been itching for other people to die in a pointless war with Cambodia for years.
Thailand digs the hole deeper and deeper and is not able to get out from it. The way to cure the scars from the past is that Thailand should overhaul and review its history textbooks to respect neighboring countries and have a good look at themselves .
Thai academics have warned the government of going to war with Cambodia. "Even we won the war, we won't have the ownership of Prear Vihear temple and we risk being labelled as an outlawed country by the international community. It is irreversible to have the right to appeal the International Court of Justice's verdict because 10 years of appeal limitation has overlapped and we haven't done anything in the last 50 years and why now ? Let it goes before we embarrass ourselves any further", said one Thai academic.
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The conflict between Thailand and Cambodia caused by Thai repeated acts of aggression has become international affairs since the UNSC meeting in New York on 14 February 2011 followed by
European Union, the EU’s parliament condemned the deadly fighting occurring from 4 to 7 February
"I would say the internal politics in Thailand are very much responsible for what's happening on the border with Cambodia," says a prominent Thai academic, Pavin Chachavalpongpun. "That's not to say the conflict wouldn't happen without it, but it is a significant factor."that hawkish elements within the government and military are whipping up the nationalist fervour by provoking the fighting to show a strong hand to curry favour with hard-line voters in the upcoming poll. Abhisit is declining to rein in the extreme elements. His noisy demands that the Cambodians remove their national flag flying over the temple site and Thai army anger over a plaque on the site proclaiming "This is Cambodia" lend weight to the theory.
The dispute is a double-edged sword for Mr. Abhisit, raising questions about whether he can proceed with planned elections and bring long-term stability to one of Southeast Asia's linchpin economies.
The sporadic violence has prompted the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to send a team to assess damage to the 1,000-year-old Hindu temple which was designated as a Unesco World Heritage site in 2008 and is regarded as a high point of the Khmer civilization that once dominated much of mainland Southeast Asia.
Alexander Mohr, an international relations expert and partner for international relations at the European government relations firm Alber & Geiger in Brussels, and former lecturer on international
relations at the French University “Institut d’etudes Politiques de Paris,” France, in an article published in The Nation on 1 March 2011 under the title: “Border conflict could be an opportunity to redefine Asean,” has concluded that: “The involvement of a third party could have great potential to solve the problem between the two countries and at the same time re-define the role of Asean in the region in the long run.”
The " involvement of a third party " freak Thailand out big time the involvement of a third party mean level playing field .
If Thai academics really want good result in Khmer Thai relationship to happen they must keep a steady voice in their media not just pumping theirs opinions out only after their government policy hits a snag.That I would called it hypocrisy.How about Thai religious leaders where are they?.I only see Asoke group who used the word Asoke without really know its meaning to come out and protest against Cambodia.
As an outsider now I start to believe that Thais are tricky people used academic as a tool for damage control.Keep your volume constant in a consistent way if you are sincere Thai academics! you can not fool too many people too many times.
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