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From: Timothy Chhim
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Subj: PREAH VIHEAR TEMPLE People's network threaten action against
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What are they going to do? Burn down Cambodian Embassy?
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PREAH VIHEAR TEMPLE
People's network threaten action against Cambodia
Published on October 25, 2009
Cha-am - Thai protesters yesterday threatened to surround the Cambodian
Embassy in Bangkok next month unless Prime Minister Hun Sen withdrew troops
and removed Cambodian community from the disฌputed area adjacent to Preah
Vihear.
Some 30 people led by the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) made a
brief protest at Puk Tien beach in ChaAm district, some 10km away from the
Asean meeting venue in response to the harsh remarks by Hun Sen regarding
fugitive Thaksin Shinawatra.
Thailand and Cambodia have been at loggerheads over the disputed area near
the Hindu temple of Preah Vihear for a long time but the issue heated up a
year ago when it was listed as a World Heritage Site.
The issue of Thaksin added fuel to the conflict when Hun Sen said he would
make the fugitive expremier his economic adviser and would not extradite
him to Thailand. Such remarks have heightened tensions with the Thai
government which is seeking to apprehend Thaksin, who has been sentenced to
two
years' prison sentence in a corruption case.
The protesters handed over their letter of demands to the Foreign
Ministry's DirectorGeneral of Asean Affairs Vitavas Srivihok demanding the
troop
withdrawal and removal of the Cambodian comฌmunity from the area within a
week.
They condemned Hun Sen's recent remarks and wanted the Cambodian premier
to leave Thailand immediately as he was not attending the Asean Summit in a
spirit of goodwill.
Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya said his government had allowed the
protesters to exercise their freedom of expression in accordance with
democratic
principles. The government would take their demands into consideration and
would convey them to the neighฌbouring country if necessary, he said.
The Thai government would not allow one incident to jeopฌardise relations
between the two countries, which have a lot of areas of mutual interest, he
said. Kasit said the government would deal with Hun Sen in a cool manฌner.
"We have been together with Samdech Hun Sen the whole day in the [Asean]
meeting. I think he did participate in every sesฌsion [of the Asean meeting]
in a very constructive manner," Kasit said.
Prime Minister Hun Sen even supported Thailand's intention to be a
temporary unit of surฌveillance of the Chiang Mai Initiative
Multilateralisation
(CMIM), Kasit said.
Regarding the Thaksin issue, Kasit maintained his hope that Hun Sen would
be able to disฌtinguish personal affairs from the mutual interests of the
two countries.
"I don't know whether Prime Minister Hun Sen has invited Thaksin to visit
Cambodia after he has served his jail term in Thailand or not," he said.
If Thaksin were to be in Cambodia before serving his sentence, the
government would seek his extradition in accorฌdance with the bilateral
treaty,
Kasit said.
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