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“A story goes that Pugad Island just 1.7 miles away from Philippine occupied Parola Island was lost by the country to the Vietnamese in the early 80s when the latter brought Vietnamese prostitutes to Parola as a gift to the Pinoy commanding officer who was celebrating his birthday. To the last man, the Pinoy soldiers left to attend the rare spectacle and allowed the cunning Vietnamese to immediately seize the island.”
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NB: One has heard of the Vietnamese encroaching on Khmer lands and farms, often with the help, and under the cover of, many a moonless night, so it comes as little shock to hear that our Filipino friends returned from a birthday party just 1.7 miles away to find an entire island seized by Vietnamese forces! - School of Vice
Encroach = 1. To take another's possessions or rights gradually or stealthily: encroach on a neighbour's land. [Free Dictionary]
By Jaime Laude, The Philippine Star
01/04/2013
MANILA, Philippines - Vietnam has reportedly put up and is now operating a supermarket in Pugad Island in the hotly contested Spratly archipelago to cater to the needs of the growing number of local and foreign tourists visiting its occupied area.
The local government of Kalayaan, an island town based in Pag-Asa Island, has received reports from Filipino fishermen who just returned from Pugad, where they sought shelter during a storm, that a supermarket is now fully operational in the Vietnamese-held island.
“Our local fishermen said that there’s now a supermarket in Pugad. We are still trying to verify and validate this,” Kalayaan Mayor Eugenio Bito-onon Jr. said, adding that the best way to confirm the report is through diplomatic channels.
Only 2.5 kilometers away from Parola Island, one of the country’s regime of islands in the Spratlys, Pugad Island has been monitored to be bustling with development over the years, the latest of which was the completed construction of an encircled jetty port with sailboats, apparently part of Vietnam’s tourism program in the island.
Bito-onon, however, is not alarmed over this development.
He even said that once the report is confirmed, this would make living for all Spratly archipelago residents easier and more comfortable.
“Through proper coordination via diplomatic channels, perhaps we can go there and shop for our basic needs instead of sourcing our supplies from mainland Palawan, which is quite far,” Bito-onon said, remaining optimistic that all residents in the region – Filipinos, Chinese, Vietnamese, Malaysians and Taiwanese – will continue to coexist peacefully despite tensions in the area.
With a land area of 12 hectares, Pugad Island is the sixth largest island in the disputed region aside from being the highest point at four meters above sea level.
In 1968, Filipino troops established a military garrison in Pugad but Vietnamese forces took possession in 1975, when the Filipinos left to attend a birthday party of their commanding officer based at nearby Parola.
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Perhaps you should brush up your history lessons, Mr. SchoolOfVice.
The "Parola Island" and "Pugad Island" have been Vietnam's islands. We lost both islands during the Vietnam war and only got back one island. The other is still occupied by the Philipines.
In 1933, the French Government decided to take official possession of the islands of Spratley include Northeast Cay and Southwest cay. Three ships, the Alerte, the Astrobale and the De Lanessan took part in the expedition. The following are relevant quotations from an account given by H. Cucherousset in L'Eveil economique de l'Indochine (No. 790 of May 28, 1933):
"Further north still, at the level of Nhatrang, is the atoll named "North Danger", the Alerte took possession of two sandy islands (cayes) where it found some Japanese fishing. The De Lanessan went there too and explored the little island. The latter is perceptibly higher than the others, the highest point reaching 5 metres. The phosphate beds are considerable and were much exploited by the Japanese."
After possession had been taken, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs published the following notice in the French Journal Officiel dated July 26, 1933 (page 7837)
"Notice concerning the occupation of certain islands by French naval units.
The French government has caused the under mentioned isles and islets to be occupied by French naval units:
Group of two islands situated at latitude 111o29' north and longitude 114o21' east of Greenwich, with their dependent isles (36) (Possession taken April 10, 1933).
The above-mentioned isles and islets henceforward come under French sovereignty (this notice cancels the previous notice inserted in the Official Journal dated July 25, 1933, page 7784).
In 1939, Japan occupied these islands until the end of World War II.
In 1956, French transferred these islands to South Vietnam.
In 1959, South Vietnam Government renamed "Song Tử" (meaning twin because two islands very similar together) with "Tây" (meaning west) and "Đông" (meaning East) to identify them.They was annexed to Phuoc Tuy province, South Vietnam.
On May 24, 1963, the sovereignty steles were rebuilt on Song Tu Dong (North East Cay) and Song Tu Tay (South West Cay) by crew members of the three vessels Huong Giang, Chi Lang and Ky Hoa of the South Vietnam.
In 1968, Philippines troop occupied Northeast Cay (Parola Island, Song Tu Dong) and Southwest Cay (Pugad Island, Song Tu Tay). In 1975, Southwest Cay was captured by South Vietnam and was taken over by later unified Vietnam. The Philippines continued to occupying the Northeast Cay until now.
Parola Island can be considered as the second top priority of the Philippines for protection, after Pagasa Island, since it is very near Vietnamese-occupied Pugad Island. There are only one to two structures in this island that serve as shelters of the soldiers.
Ah yuon very greedy encroached any land if they have a chance,ah siamese very lucky because they don't have border with ah Yuon,look at Laos all gone completely submission to yuon,Khmers still have a lots patriotism/nationalism to fight with ah Yuon even though we have less advance in weapons nor men power we still have a gut to fight ah Yuon thieves.Thanks khmers soldiers and pol pot comrades fought ah Yuon many years after invasion 1979.If siamese may give up like Laos already.Khmers soldiers won't give up nor afraid to die.May god bless all khmers soldiers,happy new years to all of them.
Yobal Khmer
Nothing new, but this would serve as a reminder to all Khmers :
To loot and trick the Chams, the Khmers, the French, the Japanese, the Americans, and now the Philippinos, evil Yuon never fail to use, as their weapon of wars their own women VIRGINAS !!!
Vietnam has every excuse to stole from other country,but soon there will be break up between them because suppression has its own limit.
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