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Border post no. 270 that the Anh-chanh villagers claimed it was planted on their rice fieldsCambodian authority explains about border stakes planting in Takeo
26 May 2010
By Sek Bandith
Source: Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Heng Soy for KI-Media
Click here to read the article in Khmer
Sin Sotheany, chairman of the no. 4 land border post group, told RFA in front of several Anh-chanh villagers on 26 May that the villagers’ reaction to the planting of border stake in Anh-chanh village, Borey Chulsa district, Takeo province, that led to the loss of their rice fields is not true.
Sin Sotheany claimed that the planting of border stakes between Cambodia and Vietnam did not lead to a loss of land by the villagers.
Sin Sotheany indicated: “The reason the villagers were on alert yesterday, I personally asked Mr. Khim Pak. After questioning, there was no land involved in this area! Their [villagers’] land is located 200 to 300-m from there, it’s rather far away! When they saw the border post pointing toward them, they said that they lost their rice fields, so they were aroused. Another point indicating that a wooden post bearing a Viet flag, there was no such post, there was no Viet flag, there was nothing at all! It is just a wooden stake where no. 270 is marked on it, it just a temporary border post, not a stone border post. We did not install the stone post yet. I am telling that the application on the spot is unlike what [the villagers] accused Vietnam of! Yesterday, there were half Vietnamese and half Cambodians [in the border demarcation group], but they look from far away and they said that the group was all Vietnamese.”
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