Comments on: Slek Bas http://www.satreykhmerOnline.com/2008/07/14/slek-bas/ Welcome to Flavor of Khmer Empire. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:02:16 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Andrew http://www.satreykhmerOnline.com/2008/07/14/slek-bas/comment-page-1/#comment-1110 Andrew Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:36:02 +0000 http://www.satreykhmerOnline.com/2008/07/14/slek-bas/#comment-1110 PREAH VIHEAR belong solely to Cambodia. Built and designed by the sweat and blood of Cambodian, built location on Cambodian soil. The attack and long arguement by Thai against Cambodian people is nonsense and completely insane. Intrusion over Cambodian ancestor's heritage is illegal. To claim that Cambodian ruins belong to Thai is totally an insult to Cambodian ancestors. Thai should and MUST apologize to Cambodian people and should stop bullying other nation. -Andrew Larzein (Specialize in southeast asian study) PREAH VIHEAR belong solely to Cambodia. Built and designed by the sweat and blood of Cambodian, built location on Cambodian soil.

The attack and long arguement by Thai against Cambodian people is nonsense and completely insane. Intrusion over Cambodian ancestor’s heritage is illegal. To claim that Cambodian ruins belong to Thai is totally an insult to Cambodian ancestors. Thai should and MUST apologize to Cambodian people and should stop bullying other nation.

-Andrew Larzein (Specialize in southeast asian study)

]]> By: kroocrew http://www.satreykhmerOnline.com/2008/07/14/slek-bas/comment-page-1/#comment-1108 kroocrew Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:45:11 +0000 http://www.satreykhmerOnline.com/2008/07/14/slek-bas/#comment-1108 War and provocation is not likely to finalise this issue. In 1962 the Thai were very under-prepared for the international hearing of ownership of the land on which Preah Vihear is seated. Under prepared by ignorance or poor advice seems in itself to be a question. The ruling was made appropriately on the arguments and advice of the time. It is a final ruling. The land is now owned by Cambodia. The Thai argue that it's a poor border-line. A borderline is arbitrary and as mentioned the access to geographical parameters is accessible and easy with GPS. The borderline is not an argument of substance. The political wranglings within Thailand three years ago and percolating on until now have drawn issues not related to the central internal theme. This is a ploy to add as much fuel to the political fire as possible. The militaries responded the issue was escalated. The Thai dissidents got what they wanted a little bit of chaos, the Khmer were frightened and responded likewise. The people around Preah Vihear were terrified and angry. They lost their livelihoods again over-night and no-one seems to be gaining any advantage at all. UNESCO ruled that this was a heritage for all mankind. It is now held for all mankind under the stewardship of Cambodia. It is a magnificent heritage, it allows us an insight into a lost civilisation with it's solutions and social strategies, its magnificent architecture and most of all an understanding of the ancestors of the modern Khmer. It gives the modern Khmer a sense of re-identification, an aspect very damaged some thirty years ago and only now very slowly re-evolving. In history, land is won and lost. This generally happened by war. Today we negotiate and let arbiters judge the arguments. No war! Ancient history offers very little validity to land ownership in my eyes, especially a place like Preah Vihear which has none or very little impact on the Khmer or Thai identity. The worst thing that one country can do is to take land away from another. It will predictably provoke serious reaction and probably war. It's just not worth it. The aggressors are judged to be wrong by the whole civilised world. War and provocation is not likely to finalise this issue. In 1962 the Thai were very under-prepared for the international hearing of ownership of the land on which Preah Vihear is seated. Under prepared by ignorance or poor advice seems in itself to be a question. The ruling was made appropriately on the arguments and advice of the time. It is a final ruling. The land is now owned by Cambodia. The Thai argue that it’s a poor border-line. A borderline is arbitrary and as mentioned the access to geographical parameters is accessible and easy with GPS. The borderline is not an argument of substance.

The political wranglings within Thailand three years ago and percolating on until now have drawn issues not related to the central internal theme. This is a ploy to add as much fuel to the political fire as possible. The militaries responded the issue was escalated. The Thai dissidents got what they wanted a little bit of chaos, the Khmer were frightened and responded likewise. The people around Preah Vihear were terrified and angry. They lost their livelihoods again over-night and no-one seems to be gaining any advantage at all.

UNESCO ruled that this was a heritage for all mankind. It is now held for all mankind under the stewardship of Cambodia. It is a magnificent heritage, it allows us an insight into a lost civilisation with it’s solutions and social strategies, its magnificent architecture and most of all an understanding of the ancestors of the modern Khmer. It gives the modern Khmer a sense of re-identification, an aspect very damaged some thirty years ago and only now very slowly re-evolving.

In history, land is won and lost. This generally happened by war. Today we negotiate and let arbiters judge the arguments. No war! Ancient history offers very little validity to land ownership in my eyes, especially a place like Preah Vihear which has none or very little impact on the Khmer or Thai identity. The worst thing that one country can do is to take land away from another. It will predictably provoke serious reaction and probably war. It’s just not worth it. The aggressors are judged to be wrong by the whole civilised world.

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