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Sam Rainsy and the villagers are pulling out the border markes planted on their rice fieldsBy Meas Sokchea
The Phnom Penh Post
OPPOSITION leader Sam Rainsy uprooted six demarcation poles on the Cambodia-Vietnam border Sunday after leading his party's Kathen festival procession to the Ang Rumdenh pagoda in SvayRieng province’s Sam Raung commune, Chantrea district, saying that the poles were placed illegally by Vietnamese authorities.
Sam Rainsy said Monday that the poles he removed were not border markers accepted by both countries but had been erected only recently by Vietnam.
"As I was putting a money offering in a monk's bowl, people approached me and asked me for help. I asked them, 'With what do you need my help?' And they told me, '[The Vietnamese] took Khmers' land'",' Sam Rainsy said, adding that the residents' rice fields and the pagoda were located about 100 metres from the border.
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