From: Alternatives Watch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:12 AM Subject: Your Say on "A Better Sacrifice" To: Alternatives Watch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
YOUR SAY ON "A BETTER SACRIFICE" Your alternative to war regarding the Preah Vhihear invasion deserve full consideration and respect. Lives of our soldiers who are long time under paid, unfit, and not sufficiently trained for even a small battle, should not be wasted. The Cambodian government must reveal the truth: what is behind the soft diplomacy approach while our own territories are being invaded. War is never a solution to conflicts. Mu Sochua 20 Oct 08 Thank you very much for including me in your mailings - I appreciate what you write very much. I would be most happy to know that many people share the positions you take. I feel so sad about the loss of life, limbs, and blood at the border - it has not achieved anything useful. And it is painful to observe the discrepancy, time and again, between the words about the "heroes" who have lost their lives, and the general disregard for the details which form the background of the present conflict. Especially I refer to the Joint Communique of 18 June 2008, which has not been published in Cambodia, as far as I know. I have tried to call for attention to this document ever since Preah Vihear got into the headlines in mid June 2008, in several editorials to The Mirror - again yesterday, on 19.10.2008. I quote here one section only: "When some media and some civic organizations call on the government to lodge protests against the Thai presence - in these buffer areas to the north and to the west of the Preah Vihear Temple - referring to maps of 1907 and of 1904, they are probably not aware that these maps have been superseded by another map on 18 June 2008, presented on behalf of the Kingdom of Cambodia. Any international and any bilateral negotiation will have to deal with the most recent legal position, on which both governments, in the presence of UNESCO, have agreed." The full text is here: http://cambodiamirror.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/international-conflicts-require-an-internationally-open-discussion-to-find-solutions-%E2%80%93-sunday-19102008/ And it can, as all the related materials also from the past, always be found here: http://cambodiamirror.wordpress.com/ Did you know the text of the Joint Communique, and especially the map, which supersedes - in the name of the Royal Government of Cambodia ! - all former maps? Norbert Klein 20 Oct 08 One thing that bothers me though is: while the Cambodians go to school, who is looking after the border? La Sary 20 Oct 08 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. This is an unmoderated forum. Please refrain from using foul language. Thank you for your understanding. Peace among us and in Cambodia. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/camdisc Learn more - http://www.cambodia.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
