Tuesday, 12 November 2013
តុលាការយុត្តិធម៌អន្តរជាតិ នៅទីក្រុងឡាអេ ទើបតែប្រកាសឲ្យ កម្ពុជាឈ្នះក្នុងក្តីប្រាសាទព្រ
Latest News: The International Court of
Justice in The Hague has just proclaimed Cambodia's victory in the Preah
Vihear Temple dispute with Thailand.
นานาชาติศาลยุติธรรม เฮก ประกาศเพียง ชนะในวัด
អែតមីន រ៉ានុត (Ranuth)
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Latest News: The International Court of Justice in The Hague has just proclaimed Cambodia's victory in the Preah Vihear Temple dispute with Thailand.
นานาชาติศาลยุติธรรม เฮก ประกาศเพียง ชนะในวัด
អែតមីន រ៉ានុត (Ranuth)
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Preah Vihear temple: Disputed land Cambodian, court rules
The 900-year-old Preah Vihear temple is a World Heritage site
Cambodia should have sovereignty over disputed land around the Preah
Vihear temple on the border with Thailand, the UN's highest court has
ruled.
The International Court of Justice in the Hague said Thailand must withdraw any soldiers from the area.
The long-standing rift has previously led to clashes between the two nations, who both lay claim to the land.
A 1962 verdict by the court declared the temple to be Cambodian, but did not rule on the area around it.
Cambodia sought a clarification of the ruling two years ago, after fighting erupted.
Delivering the judgement, Peter Tomka, president of the International Court of Justice, said the court had decided "that Cambodia had sovereignty over the whole territory of the promontory of Preah Vihear".
"In consequence, Thailand was under an obligation to withdraw from that
territory the Thai military or police forces or other guards or keepers
that were stationed there," he said.
Fears of violence
Both sides agreed to withdraw troops from the disputed area in December 2011.
On Saturday, the chief of Cambodia's military forces on the Thailand border called an emergency meeting after Thai aircraft were seen flying low around disputed land near the temple.
However, Cambodian regional commander General Srey Deuk told the BBC he expected no problems with the Thai military after Monday's verdict.
He said no troop reinforcements had been brought up to the temple.
But fears remain about possible violence in border villages, stirred up by nationalist groups.
One Thai nationalist group, the Thai Patriotic Network, has said it will
reject any judgement from the ICJ, according to The Nation newspaper.
The group has already petitioned the court to throw out the case.
The territory has been a point of contention for over a century.
The decision to award the temple to Cambodia in 1962 rankled Thailand,
but the issue lay largely moribund due to Cambodia's civil war, which
only ended in the 1990s.
It came to the forefront again when Cambodia applied for Unesco World
Heritage status in 2008, which it won - angering Thai nationalists. Both
sides began a build up of troops in the area.
The ICJ ruling is an interpretation of the 1962 judgement and cannot be appealed
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