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Extremist yellow PAD demonstration near Khmer Preah Vihear Temple
By: The Son of the Empire

Since the conflicts have flared up between the two countries which caused by the reclaim of its right over the Preah Vihear temple and the land surroundings by Thailnd, the Thais always base their valid arguments on as the followings:

1. The only accessible gate way to the Khmer Preah Vihear temple is made on the Thai soil. So the temple must be joint-listed.
2. To make the temple really becomes the World Heritage site, the temple must be listed with all other sunbordinates that are now existing in the Thai soil and the temple must be co-managed between Thailand and Cambodia.
3. The verdict of International Court of Justice (ICJ) in 1962 gives Cambodia only the temple, but not the surounding land.
4. The ICJ did not demarcate the border line between the two countries, so the borderline is not known and the 4.6km square is not clear to which country it belongs.
5. The Frencch made-map has a problem, because the map has its basis on the wathershed of the two countries as the borderlines, but the case of Preah Vihear temple it does not follow the wathershed at all, so Thailand must disagree with it.
6. The wathershed of the two countries has been changed gradually due to the geographical change caused by the environment, so the new agreement to redemarcate of the two countries´s borderlines must be set by the Thais to reasured its rights according to the watershed basis.
7. The map made by the France that controlled Cambodia is considered as biased and unfair. With this, Thailand must reject it.

These are the arguments that I have collected on many forums argued by the Thais. So please all beloved Cambodians voice your words to counterargue with the Thais. Your counterarguments will become invaluable contributions of knowledge for our compatriot to equip themselves with effetive information.

In Sodarity

Notice: My counterargument will be posted later.