VOA Khmer | Washington, DC
Tuesday, 05 April 2011
"Students in Thailand know little about the history of Angkor Wat, while Cambodians remain unaware of their religious ties to Thailand."
While Cambodia and Thailand continue their protracted dispute over the border, scholars in the US said last week both neighbors should look deeper into their history and remove internal politics to ease the tension.
John Burgess, a longtime Washington Post reporter who has written a book about a Khmer temple in modern Thailand, told an audience in Washington last week the current crisis will ease once Thailand’s internal political situation calms and once Cambodia’s system of government opens up.
Burgess, author of “Stories in Stones: The Sdok Kok Thom Inscription and the Enigma of Khmer History,” told the Asian Society the situation would be calmer without Thais “thronging the streets and citing the loss of land to Cambodia” as a point of contention with the ruling administration.
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