Dear friend: If you are smart on knowing about the current Thai regime, why can't you have a smart brain knowing Cambodia under current dictatorial regime is oppressing people, rotten corrupt, allowing Vietnamese settlers to settle in Cambodia and giving up several thousands of square kilometers of land and sea to Vietnam? James ---
--- On Mon, 2/14/11, Pheng Kim Ving <[email protected]> wrote: From: Pheng Kim Ving <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Opinion @ Phnom Penh Post: Thailand is not trustworthy To: "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, February 14, 2011, 9:32 PM The current Thai government is an illegal one; it was installed by the Thai military who illegally made a coup d'etat against the legally elected Thaksin government. That's one problem. Another problem is that in this case, "international community" simply means the superpowers on the UN security council: USA, Russia, China, India, France, and UK. Of course they naturally act on their own interest, eg the USA supported the Khmer Rouge Regime when this regime was destroyed by Vietnam although it knew this regime was a barbaric genocidal one; at that time Vietnam was a foe of the USA. If Thailand's swallowing of Cambodia won't have any negative effects on their interests, they of course won't shed a tear for the disappearing of Cambodia from the world map. And apparently Thailand's swallowing of Cambodia won't have any negative effects on their interests. The only long-term solution is to build up our Cambodian military. That's long-term. In the mean time, the virtually only solution is, well well, to rely on Vietnam. It's well known that Thailand fears Vietnam. So, Cambodia should engage Vietnam into a Cambodia-Vietnam treaty that mainly and clearly specifies that one country must come to the aid or defence of the other if the other is attacked by a third country. Pheng On Feb 14, 1:46 pm, PuppyXpress <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011021446756/National-news/th... > > The Phnom Penh Post <http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php> > > Monday > > Feb 14th > > o > RSS<http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/component/option,com_ijoomla_r...> > Thailand is not trustworthy > <http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011021446756/National-news/th...> > > Monday, 14 February 2011 15:00 Sisowath Thomico > > [image: Description: > E-mail]<http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/component/option,com_mailto/li...>[image: > Description: > Print]<http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011021446756/National-news/th...>[image: > Description: > PDF]<http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/pdf/2011021446756/National-new...> > > *Opinion* > ------------------------------ > > *Sisowath Thomico* > > Today, the United Nations Security Council will convene on the request of > Cambodia to discuss the Thai-Cambodian issue. While this meeting is > doubtlessly a victory for Cambodian diplomacy, the only question that > matters for the Cambodian people is: will it help achieve a lasting > solution? > > To everyone, the Thai-Cambodian issue seems to be a simple border conflict > as reported worldwide by the media and as Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Marty > Natalegawa stated, “it is a common border dispute like many others among > ASEAN countries”. Because of this perception of the problem, the French > Foreign Ministry offered France’s help by providing the maps annexed to the > 1907 Franco-Siamese Treaty that delimited the frontiers between Siam and > Cambodia. The offer was swiftly turned down by the Thai government. > > This dismissal clearly shows that, from the Thai point of view, the conflict > is not a matter of border demarcation. Over the last two years, Cambodian > diplomacy unsuccessfully and hopelessly tried to have the Thai side accept > those maps drawn between 1904 and 1908 as the basis for their border > negotiations as they constitute the only legal internationally recognised > documents about the Thai-Cambodian border. > > The Thai dismissal of these maps has to be understood as a blunt rebuff of > the June 15, 1962, judgement of the International Court of Justice of the > Hague, as the ruling was entirely based on the formal recognition of the > Franco-Siamese maps that were annexed to the ruling. > > This far, the Thai stance has obviously been to arrogantly and unilaterally > wipe out any legal frameworks. > > So, what will the UN Security Council meeting be about? The widely expected > outcome of the meeting is a resolution merely calling on both parties to > peacefully settle their dispute. If it were so, then the meeting would be > useless as it would only provide another legal framework to be turned down > by Thailand and leave Cambodia prey to its power politics. > > For the UNSC has to consider, not only the armed confrontation between the > two countries, but, what is more important, the bellicose declarations that > were made by Thai leaders that are the roots of the conflict. On June 25, > 2008, when he was then an opposition leader, Thai Prime Minister Abhisit > Vejjajiva unequivocally said that “Thailand had never accepted the map that > Cambodia presented to the World Court in 1962”. He also added that “Thailand > intended to seek the return of Preah Vihear when the opportunity arose”. > > The question is: By what means? The answer was bluntly given on February, 9, > 2011, by street opposition leader Sondhi Limthongkul when he urged the Thai > military “to seize Cambodian territory, including Angkor Wat, to barter for > Preah Vihear Temple”. Democrat-led Thailand clearly chose to become an > international outlaw. > > Then, to be successful, the UNSC meeting has to be a first step towards > finding a lasting solution that is, to begin with, to protect Cambodia, not > from small clashes, but from a large scale open conflict as the far > superiorly equipped Thai military is building up along the 800-kilometre > border between the two countries. > > The key problem – and the trickiest one – to be regarded by the UNSC is > surely the reliability and the relevance of an international outlaw Thai > government that does not even care to pretend to abide by its own > obligations. In this respect, how can the current street-led Thai government > be considered a trustworthy party to any negotiation? > > Without a reliable negotiation partner, Cambodia needs international > protection, the same as she needed during the reign of Pol Pot and that was > then denied to her. It is to be hoped that this time, the international > community would have learned the lesson and not pretend to give justice to > Cambodia and to the Cambodian people 30 years later. > ------------------------------ > > image003.png > < 1KViewDownload > > image002.png > < 1KViewDownload > > image001.png > < 1KViewDownload -- 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. This is an unmoderated forum. 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