Khmer Territories were laying far beyond the Dangrek Mountain chains
By KPCS
By KPCS
The idea of using the watershed was to oversimplifying the task of demarcating the border line. Deep down in theirs heart, French surveyors knew that the actual Khmer Territories were laying far beyond the Dangrek Mountain chains to the North many times over. That was the reason why those Frenchmen made the exception in their drawing when they rediscovered the Temple of Preah Vihear.
Their consciences simply did not allow them to ignore the historical facts that the Temple site belongs to the Khmers. They probably felt ashamed too for using the watershed notion to accommodate their laziness when they looked at the Temple, they suddenly realized that hundreds of years have passed, there were diligent Khmer ancestors had erected the magnificent Place,the Preah Vihear Temple, which were thousand times harder to accomplish than their task at hand.
I can assure you that if Sdok Kok Thom Temple were situated closer to the Dangrek Mountain ranges, the French would have done the same at that time, they would have ignored the watershed line and gave Sdok Kok Thom Temple to Khmers as well; Siamese wouldn't dare utter a word to complain !!!
Looking back through history, Thais should realized that they were lucky to have a country Thailand to call it Home. If it was not for what Seni Pramoj had done in the USA, the mighty British would have dismantled the Siamese Colony right after the WWII ended. The opposition led by Abhisit was to be blamed for causing all the trouble in 2008.
Now, Humankind are simply brothers and sisters from the common ancestors, even though we erred by fighting each other for thousands of years. It is about time for Humankind to act responsibly worthy to the weight of brain each carries.
By the way, who was the guy saying that if ICJ award the land to Cambodia then the 100 year war will start between the countries ? Oh poor Thai general !!! Do you want to be king privy councilor to the Thai king?!
We Khmers have not mentioned about the cluster bombs you dumb ass fired on the temple yet, shame on you!!!.
26 April 2013 2:39 am
--------------------------------------------------The Thai military does not have superiority over Cambodian military
Anonymous said...
Siam (Thailand) kept on blindly blaming the World Heritage Committee (WHC) for listing Prasat Preah
Vihear on world heritage site. They also blamed inscription as the source of tensions between Siamese
& Khmers. IT'S NOT WHC's FAULTS, IT'S SIAM WHO CREATED TENSIONS IN THE
FIRST PLACE. THEY WERE TRYING TO START A WAR WITH CAMBODIA. They think with
their military superiority they can force Khmers into giving territories
like the Youn (Vietnamese) had done in the 80's.
Here are the flaws of Siam's plans:
1.
Siam had large budgets for military spending to acquire modern
weapons. After all the money they spent, their forces are not dominating
it's neighbors. With exception of their air force and navy. Their
ground forces performed poorly against Laotian troops in the late 80's (1988 in Ban Romklao village). Now
since 2008 up to 2011 they attacked Khmer forces several times and
several positions and still didn't control any until today. War in SE
Asia's terrains do not favor heavy mechanize divisions or Naval powers
and limited air attack. Laotian & Khmer are far more COURAGEOUS and
EXPERIENCED than Siamese. It was just that Laotians & Khmers are poor and can't
afford fancy weapons. WHAT'S THE GOOD OF MODERN WEAPONS WHEN THE PERSON HOLDING THEM
ARE COWARDS.
2. Siam military and elites are as corrupted as any military leaders and elites
Indo-China countries. Most of their billion dollars budget go to top military
leaders. Their ground forces are still using a mixer of American,
French, Israeli, Chinese & Russian weapons. Most of their ground forces' weapons
are Chinese & Russian-made like the Khmers are using, so you see they DO NOT
HAVE MILITARY SUPERIORITY over us as far as ground forces are concerned. Siam are COWARDS for
centuries. They were able to take Khmer's territories BECAUSE OTHER KHMERS
BETRAYED THEIR KINGS.
3. SIAMESE population CAN'T handle high
casualties and sufferings that comes with a war with Laotian or Khmers.
Cambodia might not be able to hold the lines for long BUT we can make Siam
pay a very high price for stepping on our land. Khmers are far more
experienced in small pitch battles. Khmers forces will avoide of large
pitch battles because of Siam is stronger in strengths. Khmers will make Siam
have to fight small pitch battles, that's when we will rule supreme.
4. Siam
ARE NOT courageous, nor will they be highly motivated, they are not experienced, not tough
like the Vietnamese who fought the American , Chinese, and Khmer Rough
forces. So you see why Siam will not accomplish like Youn were able to
do to our country. Siam think they are because of their fancy weapons
BUT in reality on the ground are different.
