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Tuesday 19 June 2012

Cambodia to cede two villages to Vietnam [Heng Samrin's birth village is now in Vietnam, does it mean he is now a Vietnamese citizen?]

Monday, 18 June 2012
By Meas Sokchea 
Phnom Penh Post
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National Assembly president Heng Samrin speaks during a meeting in Phnom Penh last year. Photograph: Hong Menea/Phnom Penh Post
Cambodia would have to give two villages to Vietnam if it wanted to retain another two deemed the territory of the Kingdom’s eastern neighbour by the former French Indochina colonial administration, a government minister said yesterday.

Last year, the Cambodian government announced it was speeding up the process of demarcating its borders with Vietnam and Laos, which were renegotiated in 1985, six years after Vietnam ousted the Khmer Rouge.

Va Kimhong, senior minister in charge of the Cambodian Border Affairs Committee, said the government would have to compromise to keep Thlok Trach and Anlung Chrey villages, in Kampong Cham province’s Ponhea Krek district, as part of the border demarcation process.
“We have still kept both the villages the same, but we have an obligation to find any area in Kampong Cham province to give back to Vietnam,” he said. “That is what we call a compromise.”

Va Kimhong did not specify which villages would be given to Vietnam in exchange for retaining the territory, which includes Anlung Chrey, the home town of National Assembly president Heng Samrin.


But Sean Peng Se, president of the NGO alliance Cambodia Border Committee, said from France yesterday that any exchange would be unacceptable without consulting those who stood to lose land from such a deal.

“As I know, the map that France has kept [for us] has [Ponhea] Krek [district] belonging to the Khmer,” he said. “There has never been such an exchange, like an exchange of bread and oranges. [We] must have agreement from all people, because that land does not belong to Mr Va Kimhong and Mr Hun Sen.”

Alleged Vietnamese encroachment on Cambodian territory stirs strong passions in the Kingdom and has been a pivotal issue in all of the opposition Sam Rainsy Party’s election campaigns.

Party president Sam Rainsy lives in self-imposed exile in France after receiving more than a decade in jail terms in Cambodia for pulling up a border demarcation post and publishing a Google map to support his claim of Vietnamese encroachment.

SRP spokesman Yim Sovann said yesterday the Vietnamese claim was based on an unacceptable 2005 supplementary treaty to the 1985 Treaty on Delimitation of National Boundaries between the two countries.

“I think Va Kimhong is very wrong. According to the names of the villages, they belong to Cambodia, and since the beginning, we did not agree with the additional treaty since 2005,” he said.

Ros Va, 71, and Chum Chin, 71, residents of Po Preuk village, which neighbours the two villages in question, said they believed the villages were inside Cambodian territory but had been used as hiding places by Vietnamese soldiers during the war with the US.

“Those villages really are Khmer land. It is not confusion,” Ros Va said.

Heng Samrin could not be reached for comment yesterday, but senior Cambodian People’s Party lawmaker Cheam Yeap said the National Assembly president had lived in Anlung Chrey village for close to 80 years.

“I have gone [to Heng Samrin’s village] often; it is next to the border. Samdech Heng Samrin has already declared that since he was born. He has lived there since a long time ago,” Cheam Yeap said.

To contact the reporter on this story: Meas Sokchea at sokchea.meas@phnompenhpost.com

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

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សូមអស់លោកបញ្ឈប់ឬផ្អាកសកម្មភាពបោះ

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ក្រពុំ ឈូក ស

Anonymous said...

Kompong Cham province will be call...Tay Ninh, Phnom Penh city has already been called NAM-VANG!

Anonymous said...

Var Kim Hong said Vietnam will find 2 villages to give to Cambodia, but now he said the map shows Heng Samrin's village is in Vietnam, so Vietnam won't give any villages to Cambodia. Also, if the map shows like that, why this village is controlled by Cambodia for 59 years (1953-2012)?

This is the first time Hun Sen government admitted we have to give land to Vietnam. But how many villages or areas Hun Sen had given to Vietnam that he never told the people? Cambodia is getting smaller and smaller because of traitors like Hun Sen.

Anonymous said...

THIS IS NOT A LAND SWAP!
"Ceding two villages in order to retain another two of our own villages" is a give-away NOT a swap.
This is a Lose-Lose negotiation. If this is an acceptable outcome for Cambodia, hence I wonder why it took almost two decades to negotiate???
Cambodian so-called negotiators should be ASHAMED of their imcompetence!

Anonymous said...

Be headed the traitors who sign the deal,catch them and cut his/her guts let the Vultures eats heir guts,this is treason in the making....Cpp should be ashamed for sucking Yuon Kdoh and going Yuon land.Why don't you let Yuon do your wife and your daughters too....

Ah kbot jeat!!!!

Anonymous said...

Pol Pot was right. All these bastards are traitors who would give their own birth place to foreigner just to hang on to power.

Anonymous said...

I have to agree with most of you. How many more land do we have to give to Vietnam?

Anonymous said...

Surely, if there is only one political party in Cambodia, the CPP will do everything it wants without telling to the people, lucky, existed more than one and even there are several political parties in srok Khmer CPP is trying to eliminate them all. The poor uneducated ones think that the opposition party is an evil-minded.

Anonymous said...

i am still happy that we didnt lose all provinces bordering youns. still a good news.

Anonymous said...

We should try to raise some money and then offer the bounty on these traitor's head for $10k each head!!!

Anonymous said...

we can't do anything but the next genaration will write down in history book. ah na kbot jeat kong deung te.

Anonymous said...

Its just a matter of time my friend,as long as Cpp in power they will give all khmers land to foreigners / Yuon Hanoi their boss.

Only in srok Khmer that you hear land ceding for another country ,especially the land was a home town of senate president Heng Samrin giving away without even hearing a word from the mouth of the public figure [ Heng Samrin ] himself telling someone to stop this ceding his ancestor's land to Yuon,whats a traitor !!!

IF Heng Samrin so coward ,not dare to tell Yuon not to encroach his ancestry's land
Heng Samrin not worth of being Khmer....

Here my comparison about an animals and Heng Samrin: Animals like wolves,Lions just the name a few,has no six senses ,but they will defend their territory with its life from indrutor big or small...Facts: Heng Samrin; A human being have six senses plus a public figure of Cambodia allows Yuon to steal his ancestry's land without even say word i can not believe it,it's beyond my comprehension!

An animals has more loves to their territory than Pm Senate of Cambodia Heng Samrin,by comparison (facts).
Not only that Heng Samrin is a treason or a traitor (treason) worse/lower than animals.

You should learn from a little girl that your thugs killed at Kratie named Chantha,she stood her ground to defend her land and died on her land,that is a real human being/heroism.

What are you going to do with this land ceding Mr Hunsen /Chea Sim/King/king Sihamony and all the Cpp henchmen that holding power today,a question millions khmers wanted know?.....


Kmenh watt

Anonymous said...

Would you do it for that much? I got a green papers with death U.S president on it for you, if are willing to do it....I don't think your plan is working....Here my plan;If you want to see tiger's cubs,you must dare to clawl into the tiger's dent.Also,Khmer proverb; Oz tuk kompoop oiy ro'arn jab trey barn kompoop oiy ro ork terk ...You think about it i got a green.

Anonymous said...

2:45 AM
Were you bor ne from the Chlorophyll
tank !!? We are talking about
patriotism here and not so impressed by your wealth.
Your Khmer proverb seems oozing out from
your filthy brain and you need to elaborate
the phrase to do yourself justice.

Anonymous said...

Do not attack me ! Attack the treason leaders,stop using profanity, i am on your side protect your mother land at all causes.We need unity,not internal conflict among khmers then blame Yuon or Siam.