Wednesday, November 11. 2009
By Sok Serey
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
A group of students claimed that the local authority in Chantrea District, Svay Rieng province, blocked them from monitoring border posts separating Vietnam from Cambodia when the group went to visit the border situation on Monday. The visit followed the accusation that Vietnam encroached on Cambodian territories.
Cambodian border expert officials warned that the monitoring of these border posts is a disturbance of the work agreed upon by experts from both countries at that location.
Pen Sophea, the leader of the group of 20 students from various universities in Phnom Penh who went to monitor the situation along the border in Chantrea district, Svay Rieng province, declared that the local authority prevented the students from approaching the border posts.
Pen Sophea said: “We interviewed several villagers, they confirmed what the news media reported. Therefore, our students group witnessed that.”
Pen Sophea: Did you witness the case?
Student group: Yes, we saw.
Pen Sophea: Did the Yuon stole Khmer land or not?
Student group: That’s true.
Pen Sophea added: “We are very hurt. This is the yelling of the students on their way back. The authority did not allow us to take a look, they told us to stay 100-meter away from it, we can only look at it from far away, but we couldn’t see it because they are wooden posts that Mr. Sam Rainsy pulled out.”
Heng Chamroeun, a student from Phnom Penh who belongs to the group, declared: “They blocked us from approaching the border post planting area. Our goal was to see them clearly.”
Regarding the group of students who wanted to monitor the border situation above, Chea Yeang, the Chantrea district governor, said that he did not know about this issue.
Var Kim Hong, chairman of the Cambodian joint committee for border resolution, warned that these border posts have been agreed upon by the Cambodian and Vietnamese experts already. Therefore the students’ monitoring is a disturbance.
Var Kim Hong indicated: “Why disturb the work performed by the technical group? What expertise do they have to go see it? This work is not undertaken in secrecy, but for this work, the technical group is looking for the proper spot. Why do they want to go and disturb some more? After the pullout of the border posts [by Sam Rainsy], they want to bring in their subordinates to pull something else? What else to they want to do?”
The monitoring by the students is talking place after opposition leader Sam Rainsy pulled out a border post on 25 October, while he was leading a Kathen ceremony to the Wat Ang Romdenh Pagoda, located in Samrong commune, Chantrea district, Svay Rieng province. Sam Rainsy accused Vietnam of encroaching into Cambodian territories at that location. A number of reports and sources indicated that the Chantrea district authority sued Sam Rainsy, accusing him of destroying public properties.
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