Comments on: Heavy gunfire at border : Thailand urges citizens to leave Cambodia

By: Mr. IM RIN

Mr. IM RIN — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:14:40 +0000

Is Preah vihea belong to Thai or Cambodia?
The conflict between Thai and Cambodia over the Preah vihea temple has been continued for several months with dim result and no concerne from ASEAN members.
According to the history, as well as recorgnizing internationally by thousand millions of people around the world everybody knows that Preah Vihea temple and surrounding areas that ancient site are 100% belong to Khmer.
Thai knows themself that they are invading on Cambodian land and have tried many centuries to confiscate land from Cambodia I don’t know why they have no heart and no respect to the neighboring nation like Cambodia.
I am a Khmer, I am very sorry that all Thai and their government have tried to intrude Cambodia land? What exactly do all Thai people need from Cambodia? Tell me what all of you want from Cambodia?
Bloody war or bloody relationship?
I want to tell all people around the world that Preah vihea and surrounding land are belong to Cambodia 100% .

By: Danny

Danny — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:34:04 +0000

Thai medias only quote biased sources:

For your information, according to reutors and AFP, as well as the Cambodian sources, more than 10 thai soliders were killed, more than 20 wounded and 13 surrendered.

Anynymous but reliable source stated that more than 50 thai soldiers are being hospitalized due to the clash….but they were sent to different hospitals so that the real figured coudnt be know.

Thai military rejected the figure and surrendered thai soldiers,… riduculous… they should search on reuter because they even show the pictures of those thai soldiers being captured.

Thai military body are hidding the figure!!!!! lame. Because they are scared of more protest!

Now who you think would fired first? While Cambodia has nothing to gain from going to war with thailand, and if thailand didnt keep trespassing into cambodian territory, the clash would have occured.

When you rejected the map attached to the Treaty which you, yourself, have signed. When you rejected the decision of the high court who recognized the map and ruled that “the Temple was situated in the territory under the sovergnty” of you neighboring country. And, instead, you made your own claims, proved them by the map you’d drawn unilaterally, … it’s simply just hard to believe your claims are justified. It’s even more so when you tried to hide from the media, rejected any intervention from international institutions and used your superior force over the smaller and poorer neighboring country.

By: chinesethai

chinesethai — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:33:46 +0000

I think army leadership is also important. You can see that each conflict involves not only gunfire but also information war. While the Cambodian officials give numerous interviews almost on an hourly basis to foreign presses, we rarely hear anything from the Thai army. All we learn is from the media.

By: thaichris

thaichris — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:00:55 +0000

Te cambodian soldiers have 30+ years of fighting experience beating America out of there country, fighting a bitter war against Vietnam, a civil war and nmerious boder conflicts with Thailand (almost every time as a winner).

The Thai army lost nearly every boarder conflict with it’s neighbors (Laos, Burma, Cambodia). 30% of the military budget siphones down into various channels, over 50% of the Thai airforce has been grounded due to technical issues. The Thai army has to split it’s forces between the south, the political unres in Bangkok and a possible conflict with Cambodia.

Bet who will win!!!

By: fall

fall — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:46:13 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_federations_by_military_expenditures

Thailand spend $1.775 billion (rank 53), while Cambodia spend $112 million (rank 114) on military budget.

We will have definite fire superiority and win this war in no time, right?