My Brief Rebuttal to Abhisit’s Letter to UN

Abhisit Vejajiva and Pang Sokheoun

MY BRIEF REBUTTAL TO ABHISIT’S LETTER TO UN

Wednesday, August 11, 2010
By Pang Sokhoeun
On the web at The Son of the Khmer Empire

Below is my brief rebuttal to Abhisit’ letter countering Hun Sen sent’s letter to UN complaint on Thailand’s threat of war which will be rebutted from point to point. So please follow me:

• Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva tells the United Nations that letter of Cambodia’ Prime Minister Hun Sen to the UN concerning Preah Vihear controversy is “misquoted, taken out of context and misunderstood.”

Doesn’t Thailand have any law to guarantee press, media in order to secure freedom of press, expression and at the same time to secure social and political order, reliable information, reputation, and culture? Hun Sen often quoted his sources from the Nation and Bangkok Post which are the pro-Abhisit’s media and Abhisit always accuses him of being misinformed and misunderstood. So if it is misquoted, it is not Hun Sen’s mistake, but it must be the media that disseminate the wrong information with purposes and they must be held responsible for their crimes as stated by Thailand’s Constitution, Article III pertaining to the Rights and Liberties of the Thai People in Section 36. Or Abhisit must ask them to publish correction for it is a very sensitive issue. But he always fails to do so.

• Abhisit said in his letter signed on August 10 to Vitaly Churkin, President of the United Nations Security Council, that the current border problem between both countries arises from Cambodia’s encroachment of Thailand’s territory in violation of international law.

Please tell us which international law have we violated? Which map is used to prove that we are encroaching thailand’s territory? Please send the evidence, but not just bla bla bla. For Cambodians we make clear that Thailand is the one that encroaches on Cambodian territory by adopting only its unilateral drawn map ( here) after the 1962 verdict of ICJ 1962 and ignoring the Annex I Map ( here) of the 1908 Siamese-French map signed by Thailand and used by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) 1962.
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