The picture of King Mongkut.Anonymous said...
Rama IV (King Mongkut 1804-1868) was obviously trying to symbolically reinforce his claims over Angkor and literally steal it. However, he has not been successful on several attempts. First, he ordered Siamese soldiers and workmen to disassemble the temple of Angkor Wat, stone by stone, and bring them to Siam and re-assemble them again. The works only were stopped by furious Khmers who attacked the Siamese workmen who tried to take the stones away. The Khmers were conscious about the temple as their “national” heritage; and their religious site. There was obviously a feeling of knowing about the temple belonging to them. Thus, King Mongkut’s plan had failed miserably (from Siam history textbook).
Later on, he sent a team of experts to survey Angkor Wat if they were able to disassemble and assemble it back. The team of Siamese experts reported back to the king that the task of moving Angkor Wat from Cambodia to Siam is monumentally impossible. Hence, he ordered the construction of a miniature replica of Angkor Wat in Bangkok. Even if that model was small, the king lifted its symbolic value sky-high by placing it in the compound of the centre of the kingdom’s power and potency, the Wat Phra Kaew which houses the royal palladium, the Emerald Buddha. At that time, the Thai view of Cambodia was already that of a “savage country”. Thus, the Siamese did not acknowledge any Cambodian claims over Angkor.
This idea became more sophisticated during the time of military rule under Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkram from the 1930s to the 1950s. The ideological foundations of his fascist-leaning policies were laid by the Thai rhetoric thinker Luang Wichit Wathakan, whose officially sanctioned ideas about Thai nationalism have been pervasive until today. One of the theories he put forward was, that the Khmer of today have no connection to the ethnic group that built Angkor, which he termed 'khom'. Although 'khom' is simply derived from the ancient Thai word for 'Khmer Krom' for “lowland Khmer”, Wichit used the old term to invent a new ethnicity to emphasize a clearcut break between Angkor and Cambodia. At the same time, he tried to incorporate the Khmer into the Thai race to raise popular support for upcoming military undertakings in Cambodia. In Wichit's play, Ratchamanu, about a military commander who led an army against Longvek, Cambodia's 16th century capital, the main character proclaims that the Khmer used to occupy the old 'khom' territory and “came to be called Khmers. In fact, we’re all really Thai brothers”. He goes on to explain that “all of us on the Golden Peninsula are the same... [but remember] the Siamese Thais are the elder brothers [...]".
Although the ethnic continuity between the builders of Angkor and today’s Khmer is beyond doubt, however, Wichit was already successful in enforcing Thai claims to Cambodia .
Thailand's fraudulent argument is very impressive and sound very professional. However, it lacks the basic of facts and evidences to back its claim. In the court room; it doesn't matter how well you speak English or how good you sing the song, the bottom line is fact. The court made the judgement based on fact, not a good storytelling or how well you sing. Cambodia on the other hand may not be a good public speaker, but it based the issues and arguments on facts. The evidence that Cambodia presented to the court had pretty much cemented the case. Cambodia has enormous evidences against Thailand. What else Thailand could do to defend itself, except to ask the court to drop the case. The Thai government needs to stop giving its people false hope to score point for the election. The People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) should quit their campaign of owning Preah Vihear temple now because subsequent Thai governments had already recognized the ICJ verdict of 1962 that the temple belongs to Cambodia. The question is the land surrounding the temple; but again in 1962, the court had already ruled that the land surrounding the temple also belongs to Cambodia.
It's time for Thailand to tell the truth to the Thai people. Sooner or later, the truth will prevail. It's about the facts, it doesn't matter how hard Thailand try to bully its neighbors. The days of the Thai lies are numbered and the truth will eventually comes out. Better quit lying now and reveal the truth, rather than wait until Thailand is forced to spit it out later on.
Later on, he sent a team of experts to survey Angkor Wat if they were able to disassemble and assemble it back. The team of Siamese experts reported back to the king that the task of moving Angkor Wat from Cambodia to Siam is monumentally impossible. Hence, he ordered the construction of a miniature replica of Angkor Wat in Bangkok. Even if that model was small, the king lifted its symbolic value sky-high by placing it in the compound of the centre of the kingdom’s power and potency, the Wat Phra Kaew which houses the royal palladium, the Emerald Buddha. At that time, the Thai view of Cambodia was already that of a “savage country”. Thus, the Siamese did not acknowledge any Cambodian claims over Angkor.
This idea became more sophisticated during the time of military rule under Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkram from the 1930s to the 1950s. The ideological foundations of his fascist-leaning policies were laid by the Thai rhetoric thinker Luang Wichit Wathakan, whose officially sanctioned ideas about Thai nationalism have been pervasive until today. One of the theories he put forward was, that the Khmer of today have no connection to the ethnic group that built Angkor, which he termed 'khom'. Although 'khom' is simply derived from the ancient Thai word for 'Khmer Krom' for “lowland Khmer”, Wichit used the old term to invent a new ethnicity to emphasize a clearcut break between Angkor and Cambodia. At the same time, he tried to incorporate the Khmer into the Thai race to raise popular support for upcoming military undertakings in Cambodia. In Wichit's play, Ratchamanu, about a military commander who led an army against Longvek, Cambodia's 16th century capital, the main character proclaims that the Khmer used to occupy the old 'khom' territory and “came to be called Khmers. In fact, we’re all really Thai brothers”. He goes on to explain that “all of us on the Golden Peninsula are the same... [but remember] the Siamese Thais are the elder brothers [...]".
Although the ethnic continuity between the builders of Angkor and today’s Khmer is beyond doubt, however, Wichit was already successful in enforcing Thai claims to Cambodia .
Thailand's fraudulent argument is very impressive and sound very professional. However, it lacks the basic of facts and evidences to back its claim. In the court room; it doesn't matter how well you speak English or how good you sing the song, the bottom line is fact. The court made the judgement based on fact, not a good storytelling or how well you sing. Cambodia on the other hand may not be a good public speaker, but it based the issues and arguments on facts. The evidence that Cambodia presented to the court had pretty much cemented the case. Cambodia has enormous evidences against Thailand. What else Thailand could do to defend itself, except to ask the court to drop the case. The Thai government needs to stop giving its people false hope to score point for the election. The People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) should quit their campaign of owning Preah Vihear temple now because subsequent Thai governments had already recognized the ICJ verdict of 1962 that the temple belongs to Cambodia. The question is the land surrounding the temple; but again in 1962, the court had already ruled that the land surrounding the temple also belongs to Cambodia.
It's time for Thailand to tell the truth to the Thai people. Sooner or later, the truth will prevail. It's about the facts, it doesn't matter how hard Thailand try to bully its neighbors. The days of the Thai lies are numbered and the truth will eventually comes out. Better quit lying now and reveal the truth, rather than wait until Thailand is forced to spit it out later on.
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Thai is manipulated for political purposes and “culturally extended beyond Thailand to include the threshold of the Angkorean Empire”, the debate about the “purloined lintel”, a piece of Khmer art that was demanded back in 1988 by the Thai from the Art Institute in Chicago. The Thai claimed that the lintel had been “stolen” by Americans and was to be reinstalled at Phanom Rung, a Khmer ruin in the Thai province of Buriram. As Keyes commented about the incident, the Regarding the question of Prah Viharn, the Thai proved tough. On 11 February 1972 the cultural theme park “Ancient City” (Mueang Boran) was opened in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II in Samut Prakan, south of Bangkok. This open-air museum presents Thailand en miniature on 130 hectares. Besides the two undisputed Khmer monuments Phanom Rung and Phimai, a model of Phra Viharn occupies a large area in the east...
Today, Thailand is presenting its Angkorean heritage in various forms to the world. Phuket, for example, offers the Las-Vegas-style show “Phuket FantaSea” presenting the myths of Thailand in a theatre called “Palace of the Elephants” that is built mainly in Khmer style (though labelled as“Sukhothai-era” stone building). The model of Angkor Wat can still be found at Wat Phra Kaew, and Ancient City “opens a door to the cultural heritage of Siam” while displaying a temple that does legally not belong to Thailand.
In spring 2006, the Foreign Ministry of Thailand had to apologize twice to neighbouring countries about two movies that lacked cultural tactfulness. "Mak Tae" (Lucky Loser) was about a Laotian football team that made it to the World Cup. Vientiane found that it “mocks Laos and attributes the team’s success to its Thai coach”. The other film, “Ghost Game”, told the story of 10 candidates of a TV-Show who had to stay in a haunted prison where they must confront the atrocities that had happened there – the prison resembled Phnom Penh’s Tuol Sleng, the interrogation camp where the Khmer Rouge had tortured and executed nearly 13 000 people. The film-makers had been audacious enough to ask for a permission to shoot the film in Cambodia. Phnom Penh refused due to “cultural insensitivity”. Hence, the film was done in Thailand – without any alteration.
The legend of the two statues preah ko and preah kaev It was first published by a French scholar in the 1860s and is still used to emphasize the unjust actions of the Thai neighbours that led to the decline of the Khmer. According to the legend, the statues contained books that had been the sources of great wisdom ever since.
The king of Siam wanted to get these and took the Khmer capital of Lovek using a trick. He fired coins into the forest that served as the capitals fortification. To get the coins, the Khmer came out and cut the trees. Hence, the Thai were able to capture Lovek and to take the sacred books of wisdom with them. Thereby, it was explained why the Thai had become superior to the Cambodians, who lost their former power because they acted in greed
and thus against dhamma.In this context it was not mentioned that the Thai notorious King Naresuan took Lovek in 1593 because he wanted to take revenge for an attack by the Cambodian King Sattha who took advantage of the weakness of the Thai when the latter were once again fighting the Burmese. The French scholar had his reasons not to mention this background because active Cambodians who start a war did not fit into the French line of thought. They had to depict the Khmer as weak, passive and dormant. They used Angkor to “give Cambodian nationalism an ideological form which in fact oppressed the people it claimed to represent”, as Anthony Barnett puts it.
This olfucke do not look like or suit to be a royal family at all..? He looks like begger or thief.....
King Rama looks like olfucken death chop stick....
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