Fw: Officials to meet over deadly Thai-Cambodia border gunbattle

[Vicheth Tuon]

Dear Sir or madam,
The same problem happening to my email list. Please remove by my email from your mailing list.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Vicheth

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From: sopha samreth <samret...@hotmail.com>
To: cambod...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 4:07:32 PM
Subject: RE: Officials to meet over deadly Thai-Cambodia border gunbattle

Dear Sir or Madam.
I was surprised as I have got many e-mails that I have never known. And all of the information is not involved with me at all. In this regard, if my e mail address is on your list, please delete it so that your information is not sent to mine.
Thank you
Sopha Samreth

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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:23:52 -0700
From: rbd_b...@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Officials to meet over deadly Thai-Cambodia border gunbattle
To: cambod...@googlegroups.com

Dear all,

 

I just have a quick look at Sarath's statement and it sounds polite and acceptable. We all should not do as we did before because it is just a small thing. The forum is for learning, but not for fighting and shouting at each other. They are information and i don't think it will cause you trouble just to open or delet it. For me, the information is very useful for me and for all in the current cambodian context.

 

Sorry for any inconveniences!

 

Regards,

 

Bandos ROS

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From: Mounh Sarath <in...@cambodianvision.com>
To: cambod...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 11:02:29 AM
Subject: Re: Officials to meet over deadly Thai-Cambodia border gunbattle

Hi there.!

 

If I would suggest to everyone on this mailing list that please do not argue or fight against each other on this forum. I believe that there are not just only our Cambodian friends who access the cambodiawatch forum, but our neighbor friends also monitoring this daily info exchange net. It would be very much nicer if our friends could be more creative to build our nation's unity rather than let down of our dignity. Do not show off our negative historical behavior that Khmer people (not all) always spited themselves into small factions. I think this is a time that we have to reflect on the recent history where everyone know that are nearly run out of home and land to live. Think again.... !! You can be American, French, Australian by now... but our blood still be Khmer. The Khmer Angkor race...! Don't let this last bit of land away to others...! Come on brother.!  

I'm sorry if this suggestion does not meet your appreciation.

 

Truly yours,

 

Sarath

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From: Rachana Bunn

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Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 10:51 AM

Subject: Re: Officials to meet over deadly Thai-Cambodia border gunbattle

Hi All,

 

Can somebody tell me what is wrong with Cambodia Watch?? It's surprising to me because Many people written to inform about their unsubbcribing from the list.

 

Please let me know too because i didn't know anything wrong yet, and i don't want to unsubcribe without knowing the clear reasons!! I suppose all of you aware that something is wrong somewhere with the link!!

 

It would be crazy if you don't know that unsubcribe because you see many people unsubcribe, and I don't want to be that crazy person.

 

Please let me know before too late for me.

 

Rach

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Dear Cambodiawatch,
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On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Cambodia Watch <cambod...@gmail.com> wrote:

Officials to meet over deadly Thai-Cambodia border gunbattle

 

THAI and Cambodian military officials will meet today for negotiations over yesterday's border conflict that left two soldiers dead.
Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong said military officials from both sides would meet in Thailand to discuss the clash over a border area near a historic temple.

At least two Cambodian soldiers were killed in the gunbattle, and a total of eight troops from both sides were wounded.

Thailand's Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat pledged to "use peaceful means".

"If there is violence, we have to negotiate," Somchai said.

Yesterday's clash was the first deadly fighting in four months of tensions since Cambodia's Preah Vihear temple was declared a UN World Heritage site.

Many Thais feared their country's claim over nearby land would be undermined, and anti-government protesters have pressed their government to take a harder line on the border conflict, seeking to discredit its patriotic credentials.

The protesters have sought the ouster of Thailand's ruling party, occupying the grounds of the prime minister's offices for the past two months.

The fighting yesterday afternoon lasted for about an hour, with each side accusing the other of firing first.

The battle killed at least two Cambodian soldiers and wounded three others, according to Cambodia's Foreign Ministry. Five Thai soldiers were wounded, the Thai army said.

Thailand's Foreign Ministry said Thai soldiers were peacefully patrolling their own territory along the border when Cambodian soldiers shot at them with rocket propelled grenades and submachine guns.

Cambodia's Foreign Ministry accused Thai troops of launching "heavy armed attacks" at three different locations to push back Cambodians from positions inside Cambodian territory.

The fighting was the latest flare-up in a decades-old dispute over a stretch of jungle near the 11th century Preah Vihear temple. The World Court awarded the temple to Cambodia in 1962, but sovereignty over surrounding land has never been clearly resolved.

Thailand had grudgingly accepted Cambodian sovereignty over the temple with few armed confrontations until this year. But resurgent Thai nationalism sparked by the anti-government protesters put Bangkok authorities under pressure to aggressively pursue the land claims.

Both sides sent hundreds of troops to the area after the UNESCO action, and the dispute also fired a surge of nationalism in Cambodia that helped propel Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen to a landslide re-election victory in late July.

Most troops were withdrawn from the area a month later.

But the conflict flared again in recent weeks. A brief gunfight earlier this month wounded one Cambodian and two Thai soldiers. Three days later, two Thai soldiers lost legs when they stepped on land mines in the area.

Charnvit Kasetsiri, a historian who has written extensively on the dispute, said the fight over the temple had long been a proxy for larger conflicts, including World War II and the Cold War, but it had been considered resolved until recently.

"The issue surrounding Preah Vihear temple was over decades ago until it was fanned by nationalist rhetoric for domestic political purposes," he said.

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the US would urge both sides to refrain from violence. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also urged restraint and called on the two sides to quickly resolve the dispute.

Thailand's more than 300,000-strong military uses modern US equipment and dwarfs Cambodia's 125,000 less well-equipped troops. Cambodian forces, however, are well versed in guerrilla warfare after fighting an intense civil war against the communist Khmer Rouge.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24505760-2703,00.html

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I am giving you an analogy for you who'd asked other to unscubscribe for you. There is a restaurant that offer a free buffet. You knew about it and you went to get a free buffet, After you see the free food(a lot of different dishes), none or only of few of them you like. Then you are complaining that the foods are not good to your taste and you want the restaurant owner to pay the cab fare to go back home. First of all, no one had forced you to go to that restaurant. If you don't like the food, you might as well open your own restaurant and stop whining like a spoil brat.   --- On Tue, 10/21/08, Vicheth Tuon <viche...@yahoo.com> wrote: