Fw: Big victory for Cambodia regarding border issue

[Sam Rainsy Party of North America]

April 7, 2010


BIG VICTORY FOR CAMBODIA REGARDING BORDER ISSUE

I am extremely pleased to learn that our Government has finally recognized that 
the so-called temporary border post # 185 made up of six wooden poles which I 
pulled out in Svay Rieng province on October 25, 2010, was not a real and legal 
border marker. Moreover, officials from the Council of Ministers have specified 
in official documents submitted to the Court that that so-called temporary 
border post was actually located at a distance of “approximately” 516 meters 
from the real and legal borderline!



The corresponding official documents including a detailed map with precise 
measurements, are presented at http://tinyurl.com/y9oah7j  (please first click 
at "Télécharger ce fichier" on the top right of the first page showing "Free 
Internet")



The Government and I have now reached the same conclusion regarding border 
delineation in Samraong commune in Svay Rieng province’s Chantrea district. We 
all base our assessment and measurements on the French-era SGI 1/100,000 Map 
that has been deposited at the United Nations since 1964. My related work and 
the enlightening report by Professor Régis Caloz are presented at 
http://tinyurl.com/ybjm39m  (please first click at "Télécharger ce fichier" on 
the top right of the first page showing "Free Internet")



This is really a big victory for Cambodia when it comes to ensuring the respect 
for our country’s territorial integrity as enshrined in the 1991 Paris Peace 
Agreements and in the Kingdom’s 1993 Constitution.



At least on this specific point of the borderline, all Cambodians from all 
political parties agree with the Government decision to officially dismantle 
the fake and illegal border post # 185 which I suppressed last October when 
helping Khmer farmers defend their rice fields against land confiscation 
associated with border encroachment. Similarly, the nearby and also fake and 
illegal border post # 184 was suppressed by the Cambodian and Vietnamese 
authorities themselves last November.



There are two automatic implications from the above Government “technical” 
decision:



1- The two Khmer farmers who have been arrested following the October 25 
incident, Ms. Meas Srey and Mr. Prum Chea, must be immediately released from 
prison. They did nothing wrong when helping me pull out the above-mentioned six 
(commercially worthless) wooden poles that had been illegally planted on Ms. 
Meas Srey’s rice field, i.e. on a private land without the consent of its 
legitimate owner.      



2- All Khmer farmers including Ms. Meas Srey and Mr. Prum Chea, who have lost 
their land because of “technical errors” in the border demarcation process in 
the last few years, must be given back their property.



Sam Rainsy

Member of Parliament 









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