Sam Rainsy claims that he was successful in pushing the Viets out of Cambodian territories in Svay Rieng province

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02 February 2010
Free Press Magazine Online
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
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Pov Pheap, the no. 2 Samrong commune councilor claimed that if border post 185 were turned into a permanent marker, then Samrong commune which shares 6 kilometers of border with Vietnam, Cambodian villagers would have lost no less than 1,000 hectares of land

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy claimed that he succeeded in pushing back the Vietnamese border aggression in Svay Rieng province after he was sentenced to 2-year of jail term for uprooting border stakes.

In a declaration made to party councilors at a video conference from Paris held at the SRP party headquarter, Sam Rainsy declared: “We are very lucky that we were successful in forcing Vietnam to pull out of Cambodia.” He also added: “This is the first time in history that Vietnam is pushed out of Cambodia.”

At the same time, Sam Rainsy indicated that very soon, he will start visiting all the signatory countries of the 1991 Peace Agreements on Cambodia to report about the Vietnamese aggression in Cambodia.

The SRP indicated that its claim is backed up by several maps that it made available last month, and these maps showed that border posts no. 184, 185, 186 and 187 located in Samrong commune, Chantrea district, Svay Rieng province are located several hundred meters into Cambodian territories, and they are clearly shown on maps prepared by France and by the US.

Regarding this issue, Phay Siphan, the mouthpiece of the Council of Ministers rejected all these claims. Saying that the proof shown on the Google Earth map is not the correct map [KI-Media note: but Phay Siphan remained silent on the other two maps, is it by coincidence or because he couldn’t deny them?].

Nevertheless, Pov Pheap, the no. 2 Samrong commune councilor claimed that if border post 185 was turned into a permanent marker, then Samrong commune which shares 6 kilometers of border with Vietnam, Cambodian villagers would have lost no less than 1,000 hectares of land.