Border Posts Exactly Where They Should be, Research Team Says
Khmer Times/Ros Chanveasna
Tuesday, 29 September 2015
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| A border research team from the Royal Academy of Cambodia discovers a colonial-era border post in a flooded rice field. Kin Phea |
School of Vice: This is quite
hilarious! How do they know that these tiny 'colonial' border posts have
stayed rooted to the same spot after all these years?! The French must
have applied some sort of magic glue to the markers when they posted
them? Even a couple of maps supposedly deposited at the UN have vanished
without a trace!
)))
“I just wonder why the research team is conducting the inspection without clear principles,”
Mr. Ponhearith
PHNOM
PENH (Khmer Times) – A border research team from the Royal Academy of
Cambodia has been studying a multitude of maps and inspecting old border
posts, some of which have been in place since French colonial rule, in
an effort to calmly resolve the border issues between Cambodia and
Vietnam.
Yong Pao, a research team member, said the group is not only finding and inspecting border posts against border maps, but also checking and verifying a new set of demarcation border posts recently set by the government.
“In 11 days, the research team has discovered 12 colonial-era border posts... which were used to demarcate the border between Cambodia and Vietnam by French colonial generals,” Mr. Pao said.
“Initial results from the research disclosed that the current demarcated border posts by the government with Vietnam are completely correct and the same borderline of the 12 colonial-era border post were based on the Bonne maps... produced by French colonial generals,” Mr. Pao said.
“As planned, we need two years to conduct and complete our mission because Cambodia shares a border of 1,270 km with Vietnam,” he added.
The government has borrowed historical maps held by France and the UN to help settle the issue of where the disputed border lies. The dispute has delayed further negotiations with Vietnam while the government defends the process against allegations by the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) that it is ceding land to Vietnam.
“They [CNRP leaders] always accused the government of using a fake [map] to demarcate posts,” Mr. Pao said. He described that allegation as “baseless.” Prime Minister Hun Sen has publicly slammed the opposition party for turning the border dispute into a political issue, saying they turned a sensitive process into a dangerous political farce.
Yem Ponhearith, CNRP spokesman, told Khmer Times, “I haven’t received any clear information from this border research team yet, or perhaps did they just post that on their Facebook account?”
“I just wonder why the research team is conducting the inspection without clear principles,” Mr. Ponhearith added. “That’s why the CNRP has not yet recognized the efforts of the government and research team’s verification of the border maps,” he explained. “Our party president Sam Rainsy has spoken in more detail after studying the historical maps and seeing the actual soil.”
4 comments:
Indeed they got vet too. Some people would do anything for money.
That post Yuon just moved and put there 2 years ago.
That post looks funny !!
អេ! សុខ ទូច នៅតែចចេសបោះបង្គោលដើម្បីយួន បណ្ឌិត្តឆ្គួតជ្រូក មេជំហ៊រអួត សំដីក្អេងក្អាងដូចក្អាត់នៅក្នុងក្អម ខ្លួនតូចសំដីធំ ដូចចៅហា្វយបិសាចគ្មានខុសបន្តិច បើអ្នកឯង ធ្វើអោយខ្មែរបាត់បង់ទឺកដី ពេលណាខ្មែរបានឯករាជពីបិសាចហ៊ុនសែន ចៅហា្វយចោរព្រៃរបស់អ្នកឯង អ្នកឯងត្រូវប្រឈមនឺងមុខច្បាប់ កំុសង្ឃឺមផាវាចប់ដោយសន្តិវិធី ត្រូវដឺង។
How Khmer can trust this cement post as a real border post ? To me and all Khmer citizen this post you put on the web and show to the world opinion is more look alike a house fence post than a French protectorate border post ? Why your pinhead team so sure about this post as 80 or 100 years post from French era ? Why French colonial with rich resource to plant this small an unmarked and date and no repair point post like this in the middle of Khmer rice field like this ? It's seem to us so fishy and unbelievable isn't it ? It doesn't smell good at all to declare in broad day of this finding ? where Yuon government and Yuon people,why they are not come out in mass and witness your aggressiveness search all over the place,and let you walk around their border everywhere without any intervention ? Why Khmer saw in the past posture That enemy Yuon soldiers and their border people come out in mass with stick and weapon to stop or harassed Khmer opposition and Khmer people every time we just want to go and see our border post? This does not feed well to the reality in Khmer politic and Khmer eyes and opinion at all . Then your lunatic and disgraceful fact is so fishy recklessness, short sided, that Khmer people can't accepted this spooky found .
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