Tuesday, May 03, 2011
By Mike Corder, The Associated Press
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Cambodia has asked the United Nations’ highest court to order Thailand to withdraw troops and halt military activity around a temple at the centre of a decades-old border dispute that has flared into deadly military clashes.
Fighting in recent weeks along the disputed border region in northeastern Thailand that surrounds the Preah Vihear temple has left 16 soldiers and one Thai civilian dead.
In a request filed April 28 and made available Tuesday on the court’s website, Cambodia asked International Court of Justice judges to urgently deal with its request “because of the gravity of the situation.”
Cambodia claims that according to a 1962 ruling by the court the temple is on its territory and warns that if the intervention request is rejected and clashes continue, “the damage to the Temple of Preah Vihear, as well as irremediable losses of life and human suffering … would become worse.”
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