Friday, March 21, 2008
Sok Kong: I am a Vietnamese
20 March 2008
Translated from Vietnamese by Wanna
Originally posted at: http://www.xwanna.com
> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:28:32 -0800
> Subject: Re: Should the farmer thank Vietnam?
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
>
>
>
> On Jan 14, 4:13 am, Chon Chumleas <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The government failed to consult with landowners who lost parts of
> > their land to the divisive border, the Paris-based president of
> > Cambodia’s Border Committee (CBC) claimed.
> >
>
> If you consult with each individual land owners along the border area,
> the border line itself will never be established because the dispute
> will never be resolved. A clear policy must be established. And it
> will implemented with a broad authority set up for fairness and
> agreement of all parties. It's easy say than done. Yet, that's the
> only way to ascertain a border line.
>
>
> > “It is illegal under national and international law. Only absolutely
> > communist countries do things like this,” Sean Pengse told VOA Khmer,
> > and also slammed the National Assembly, calling its lifting of
> > opposition leader Sam Rainsy’s parliamentary immunity “undemocratic”.
> >
>
> That's not true.
> You only say this when you strongly disagree with a government who is
> pushing this policy.
>
>
> > The Council of Ministers, however, dismissed Sean Pengse’s concerns in
> > a statement Tuesday.
> >
> > “It is not true that the border markers were planted illegally because
> > landowners were not informed. Border land is not recognised as
> > privately owned land,” the statement read.
> >
> > Land titles in the area were never issued, the statement continued,
> > because the precise border was never clear.
>
>
> this statement shows clearly how difficult this dispute is.
> It is not clear whether:
> 1 Sam Rainsy and his cronies landowners are right or wrong.
> 2 Vietnamese realy incroached the land of Cambodia.
>
> My friend,
> I have a true friend who lived near the border most of his adult life.
> He went to visit the area and told me that the border seemed to be a
> couple kilometers into Cambodia than it used to be. IS IT TRUE? You
> can tell me. I am not there, nor I knew where the border was then. I
> can't make that judgemetn, nor I can believe those cronies and Sam
> Rainsy.
>
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