Khmer anti-riot troops prevent Khmer MPs from visiting the encroached area15 Dec 2009
By Uon Chhin
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
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Following their visit to review border post installations in Svay Rieng province, a group of SRP MPs claimed that the border delimitation between Cambodia and Vietnam indeed led to losses of Cambodian territories.
Even though the authority tried to set obstacle for them, delegates of a group of opposition MPs were able to travel to their destination, and they indicated that the planting of border posts was not performed correctly.
Following the visit of 21 SRP MPs and a number of other opposition officials to the site of border post no. 152, located in Pong Teuk commune, Romduol district, and the site of border post no. 185 located in Samrong commune, Chantrea district, Svay Rieng province, on Monday 14 December, Yim Sovann, SRP spokesman, determined that the border delimitation between Cambodia and Vietnam led to the loss of Cambodian territories.
Yim Sovann said: “The government and the National Assembly, in particular the [National Assembly’s] border and foreign affairs committee should take immediate measures to review the border post planting. There are thousands of border posts, we just saw 4 or 5 them and they affect the people’s lands that much already, what will happen when it comes to thousands of border posts, how much [land] will be lost?”
Var Kim Hong, the chairman of the Cambodian joint border committee, said that the claim made by SRP MPs has no technical basis, he added that the action taken by the opposition MPs was done for political gain.
Var Kim Hong said: “They should be fortuneteller, that would be more befitting. If they are not fortunetellers, they wouldn’t know that there were [territories] lost. We have all the necessary technique and we still don’t know clearly yet, how about them who only went to look, and they heard the villagers told them this and that. This is difficult to say.”
The visit of SRP MPs to Samrong commune, Chantrea district, was met with police barrage. The cops were equipped with riot shields, batons, electric baton. The cops also brought in large trucks to block traffic to the Wat Ang Romdenh pagoda.
Nevertheless, the car convoy carrying the SRP MPs took a detour through rice fields and ultimately arrived at Wat Ang Romdenh pagoda.
Inside the pagoda, the MPs met with about 100 villagers. Tense negotiations took place with about 20 cops and several other border troops so that the MPs can visit the location where Mr. Sam Rainsy uprooted border stakes last 25 October.
After they were refused access, local villagers who are already incensed by the situation decided to push through the police barrage. Finally the MPs and the local villagers were able to reach the location [where Sam Rainsy uprooted the border stakes which is located] about 300-meter from Wat Ang Romdenh pagoda.
Even though the authority tried to set obstacle for them, delegates of a group of opposition MPs were able to travel to their destination, and they indicated that the planting of border posts was not performed correctly.
Following the visit of 21 SRP MPs and a number of other opposition officials to the site of border post no. 152, located in Pong Teuk commune, Romduol district, and the site of border post no. 185 located in Samrong commune, Chantrea district, Svay Rieng province, on Monday 14 December, Yim Sovann, SRP spokesman, determined that the border delimitation between Cambodia and Vietnam led to the loss of Cambodian territories.
Yim Sovann said: “The government and the National Assembly, in particular the [National Assembly’s] border and foreign affairs committee should take immediate measures to review the border post planting. There are thousands of border posts, we just saw 4 or 5 them and they affect the people’s lands that much already, what will happen when it comes to thousands of border posts, how much [land] will be lost?”
Var Kim Hong, the chairman of the Cambodian joint border committee, said that the claim made by SRP MPs has no technical basis, he added that the action taken by the opposition MPs was done for political gain.
Var Kim Hong said: “They should be fortuneteller, that would be more befitting. If they are not fortunetellers, they wouldn’t know that there were [territories] lost. We have all the necessary technique and we still don’t know clearly yet, how about them who only went to look, and they heard the villagers told them this and that. This is difficult to say.”
The visit of SRP MPs to Samrong commune, Chantrea district, was met with police barrage. The cops were equipped with riot shields, batons, electric baton. The cops also brought in large trucks to block traffic to the Wat Ang Romdenh pagoda.
Nevertheless, the car convoy carrying the SRP MPs took a detour through rice fields and ultimately arrived at Wat Ang Romdenh pagoda.
Inside the pagoda, the MPs met with about 100 villagers. Tense negotiations took place with about 20 cops and several other border troops so that the MPs can visit the location where Mr. Sam Rainsy uprooted border stakes last 25 October.
After they were refused access, local villagers who are already incensed by the situation decided to push through the police barrage. Finally the MPs and the local villagers were able to reach the location [where Sam Rainsy uprooted the border stakes which is located] about 300-meter from Wat Ang Romdenh pagoda.
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