As Thai-Cambodia conflicts escaleted,the Thai extremists are urging their government to disregard 1907 map drawn by French regarding Cambodia-Thai border, this man is Pipop Thongchai a prominent yellow shirt leader. He asserted that his group have enough documents dating back from Rama V ( King Chulalongkhorn ) .He said he has 11 historical documents to prove that Thai owned more land than French map. If we digged further, we know that during RAMA V, King Norodom was a khmer king, French protectorat was in completed control in Cambodia. There was a war Franco-Thai war where French was attempting to wrestle Thai some land in Lao and Cambodia, as result there was an agreement signed during 1907 between French and Thai which provinces belonged to Cambodia and Lao, there was a trade between province Trat and Sisophon, where Thai took Trat and French took Sisophon, that why Thai in changvat TRat celebrates independence day every year.Ramakhamheng university is preparing to revoke honorary PhD degree from Hun Sen,amid of Thai-Cambodia conflict, it seems the conflict will not be ended very soon. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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.
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