Cambodian troops at Phnom Penh International Airport before leaving for Thailand.
By Khmerization
Sources: RFA and DAP News
Cambodia has on Thursday 16th June sent 47 soldiers, including 6 female soldiers, to join a multinational military exercise in Thailand which will be conducted from 19th to 30th June.
The multinational military exercise, which his called the Capstone Ayara Guardian, will involve troops from the United states, Indonesia, Vietnam and Singapore and which was organised by the U.S army in cooperation with the Thai army.
Mr. Prak Sokhon, coordinator for Cambodia's UN Peacekeeping Mission, said Cambodia's agreement to join this exercise is to show Cambodia's goodwill gesture despite a border conflict with Thailand. He said Cambodia had organised and hosted this sort of military drill before and Thailand had sent its military personnel to join as well. Read full article in Khmer here.
12 comments:
It's really nice to see our soldiers in matching uniforms. God bless our soldiers!
The U.N. Charter is the law of the land . The Charter imposes several obligations on all U.N. members, including the member of UNSC. Foremost is the duty under article 2, paragraphs 3 and 4, to settle international disputes peacefully, and to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any country or in any other manner inconsistent with U.N. purposes. These purposes include maintaining international peace and security, as well as achieving international cooperation in solving international problems.
Exceptions are provided for in Article 51 (self-defense) and Chapter VII (uses of force authorized by the Security Council).
Such a strict construction of Article 2(4)’s prohibition appears to make no exception for instances of even great violations of humanitarian law when such acts occur in the absence of an act of international aggression against another state, the state practice is however not so simple. One must understand that it is possible to reinterpret the Charter or develop customary international law that may supersede certain provisions, although to do this a very high threshold of practice and opinio iuris is required.
Therefore Thailand not in the league that powerful enough to invade Cambodia and risk the violation U.N Charter, Secondly Thailand major concern of the treaty of "LVCM" and the Cambodia close ties with China and Vietnam.
If there is a war in the modern and modern technology I am not going to speculate who will come on top until the fat lady sing, even the western experts stop predicting the outcome since the clashed on the Feb&April 2011.
(L.C)
Hello The Great Khmer Empire
You still remember me a couple month a go you asking my nick name we in the same league. I always support your comment because we have family in the army.
2:41pm,
It's been awhile. But I still remember. We are one nation, one family. We will support our Khmer soldiers to the fullest regardless of the color of our skin. God/Buddha bless Cambodia and our soldiers.
The Great Khmer Empire
Those people they don't have the family in the army, Cambodian army is not going to show or tell the Thai what we have according to my brother he said "it a secret Cambodia not going to let the Thai know in advance and make plan to encounter us" he told me we not going to lost the war.
The Great Khmer Empire you stand toe to toe with the people who criticize Cambodian army. I don't really belief those people are really Khmer to be honest.
I don't like the military boot that cambodian soldiers wore them...Not match with the uniforms?
All chinese stuffs...
Better than wore slipper...
Heck, as long as they're not wearing high-heel is damn good enough for me. Sandals or Chinese boots don't matter to me. As least these soldiers got something on their feet. All you procrastinator need to chill out.
What a load of crap! I say. Just because we don’t have any relative in the Cambodian Army, it does not mean we’re incapable of making rational judgment, and just because we’ve pointed out the weaknesses in the army, it does not make us any less Cambodian!
Doesn’t matter how the Cambodian army rank against the Thai army, I don’t think there is a single Cambodian who do not support the Cambodian Army in defending the country from the Thai aggression. Having said that, we do not have to blindly praise/overstate our capability; until we understand/accept our weaknesses, only then we can find resolutions to address those weaknesses.
Up to now, what has been mentioned on this blog are readily available anyway; so those so-called “true Khmer” don’t need to get paranoid that the enemy may get any advantage from these kind of information because given the Thai’s ambitions, I’m sure they have a more detailed intelligence than anything written here!
It is true that our soldiers are battle hardened war veterans, and these experience can be an advantage only if combined with adequate support in both hardware and in food supplies.
You don’t expect them to win the war simply with sling shots and other improvised weapons! Although we should admire their courage for going into battle in thongs and less than adequate battle gears, this clearly highlights the fact that the army lacks the resources to support our frontline soldiers.
Some may argue against the disclosure of our military arsenal to protect our strategic interests, but we are talking about the basics and necessities for the battles. Even if we currently possess appropriate hardware capable of defending the country, I don’t see why we can’t undertake selective disclosure to act as a deterrent rather than let the Thai learn the hard way because how can we be certain that we won’t suffer as much casualty?
As a Cambodian proverb says: “Prevention is better than cure”, it is better to prevent the war than to defend a war!
From a proud Cambodian!
Quite a poetry you got there, one unsual proud Cambodian. So what do you do, if your enemy decide to kick the door open and take your home? Do you just let your enemy takes everything and you just back off because you want to prevent conflict, or do you fight off the enemy to cure the symptom of the conflict? By the way, where do you get this Cambodian proverb? My English is pretty shitty, so please Latinize that in Khmer for me.
“I don’t think there is a single Cambodian who do not support the Cambodian Army in defending the country from the Thai aggression.” Which part of this sentence did you not understood? Where in the article did I mention that we should not defend against the Thai attack?
I think you’re the same person that always emotionally attacked my previous articles. Before you overheat the little useless brain of yours, let me put it in simple English:
1. If attack, then fight back!
2. If our frontline soldiers lack the gear/fire power, then acquire modern arsenals for them!
3. If we’ve already possesses formidable weapons to defend, then show off a selective range to deter the enemy from attacking us!
By the way, why don’t you ask your parents or any elder Cambodian in your community if you don’t know the Cambodian proverb I’ve mentioned?
Here it is in Khmer: ការពារប្រសើជៀងព្យាបាល (Ka-pea bro ser jiang pjea barl) and to put it in this context, I’ve said it is better to show off our military muscle to make the Thai think twice before invading Cambodia! That means prevention!
It is people like you who jump to conclusions without fully understanding the topic that exacerbate the problems!
From a proud Cambodia!
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