Comments on: Preah Vihear: An Overview http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/2008/05/23/preah-vihear-an-overview/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=preah-vihear-an-overview Archaeology news from Southeast Asia Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:51:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: B&S http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/2008/05/23/preah-vihear-an-overview/#comment-716 B&S Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:54:14 +0000 http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/?p=819#comment-716 Written by The Phnom Penh Post Thursday, 10 July 2008 Communique from Norodom Sihanouk Phnom Penh, 8 July 2008 I. Certain journalists are writing that the main entrance to the Preah Vihear temple faces Thailand and not Cambodia. II. The Thais have said, say and have written and write that one of the “proofs” of Thai ownership of Preah Vihear is constituted by the fact that access to the temple is infinitely more easy from the Thai side rather than from the Cambodian side. III. These journalists and these Thais seem to ignore the following historic facts, ones which amply prove that the mountain and the temple of Preah Vihear are 100% Cambodian and belong 100% to Cambodia. a/. The construction (10th and 11th centuries) of Preah Vihear by two successive Khmer Kings and is a purely Khmer work. b/. The mountain and the temple of Preah Vihear could be found, during the 10th and 11th centuries, “very much in the interior” of Kampuchea, in the Khmer Empire, of which the borders extended for hundreds of kilometers, to the north, the east and west, much further than the current Cambodian borders with Thailand and Laos. As a consequence, the mountain and the Preah Vihear temple could be found not on the Cambodia-Siam (Thai) border but “deep in the interior” of the Kingdom (of the Khmer Empire) and the “main entrance” of Preah Vihear “looked” not towards Siam (Thailand) but to Kampuchea. c/. The International Court in the Hague, which in 1962, rendered justice to Cambodia, did not ignore all this, and let me, once again, offer them a respectful and admiring homage. d/. Thanks to Khmer Sovereignty and the Khmer empire (Angkorian in particular) , present day Thailand is very rich in Angkorian style Khmer temples and monuments. [It is] absolutely wrong and gives proof to the meanness, which, in Thailand, causes to Cambodia and its people undeserved and anachronistic troubles concerning the temple of Preah Vihear, instead of devoting ourselves to the harmonious and fruitful development of our friendship and our (authentic) brotherhood (Thai-Cambodian). (signed) Norodom Sihanouk Written by The Phnom Penh Post
Thursday, 10 July 2008

Communique from Norodom Sihanouk
Phnom Penh, 8 July 2008

I. Certain journalists are writing that the main entrance to the Preah Vihear temple faces Thailand and not Cambodia.

II. The Thais have said, say and have written and write that one of the “proofs” of Thai ownership of Preah Vihear is constituted by the fact that access to the temple is infinitely more easy from the Thai side rather than from the Cambodian side.

III. These journalists and these Thais seem to ignore the following historic facts, ones which amply prove that the mountain and the temple of Preah Vihear are 100% Cambodian and belong 100% to Cambodia.

a/. The construction (10th and 11th centuries) of Preah Vihear by two successive Khmer Kings and is a purely Khmer work.

b/. The mountain and the temple of Preah Vihear could be found, during the 10th and 11th centuries, “very much in the interior” of Kampuchea, in the Khmer Empire, of which the borders extended for hundreds of kilometers, to the north, the east and west, much further than the current Cambodian borders with Thailand and Laos.

As a consequence, the mountain and the Preah Vihear temple could be found not on the Cambodia-Siam (Thai) border but “deep in the interior” of the Kingdom (of the Khmer Empire) and the “main entrance” of Preah Vihear “looked” not towards Siam (Thailand) but to Kampuchea.

c/. The International Court in the Hague, which in 1962, rendered justice to Cambodia, did not ignore all this, and let me, once again, offer them a respectful and admiring homage.

d/. Thanks to Khmer Sovereignty and the Khmer empire (Angkorian in particular) , present day Thailand is very rich in Angkorian style Khmer temples and monuments.

[It is] absolutely wrong and gives proof to the meanness, which, in Thailand, causes to Cambodia and its people undeserved and anachronistic troubles concerning the temple of Preah Vihear, instead of devoting ourselves to the harmonious and fruitful development of our friendship and our (authentic) brotherhood (Thai-Cambodian).

(signed)
Norodom Sihanouk

]]> By: Preah Vihear Dispute Heats Up « The Peoples of Thailand http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/2008/05/23/preah-vihear-an-overview/#comment-715 Preah Vihear Dispute Heats Up « The Peoples of Thailand Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:54:30 +0000 http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/?p=819#comment-715 [...] There is a good overview of the problem from the Thai perspective on the SEAArch taken from a Bangkok Post article here. [...] [...] There is a good overview of the problem from the Thai perspective on the SEAArch taken from a Bangkok Post article here. [...]

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