Khmer Intelligence News
The escalating border dispute between Cambodia and Thailand is related to a portion of Khmer territory surrounding Preah Vihear temple of 4.6 square kilometers whose status is being challenged by Thailand . But such a portion of disputed territory is relatively small in size compared to the thousands of square kilometers that Vietnam has already seized from Cambodia since 1979.
Over the last thirty years the Vietnamese authorities have openly moved border markers inside Khmer territory all along the approximately 1,200 kilometer-long borderline. The depth of the Vietnamese penetration varies from a few hundreds meters in very densely populated areas to tens of kilometers in Mondulkiri and Ratanakiri provinces, the average infringement being between two to three kilometer-deep.
Vietnam 's expansionist policies are facilitated by a continuous flow of Vietnamese settlers and a subservient regime installed in Phnom Penh by the Vietnamese army in 1979.
The ongoing and escalating tension with Thailand is designed to divert the public attention from Vietnam 's more subtle and more harmful maneuvers on the Eastern part of our country. See Sam Rainsy's letter published in today's Cambodia Daily, "Cambodia Should Look East In Defense of Territorial Integrity" at http://tinyurl.com/yd69z8l
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