No Love Lost Among Khmers and Thais  

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Lintner, Bertil

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Far Eastern Economic Review vol. 172 no. 10 (Dec. 2009), page 21.
Topik: Cambodia; Thaksin Shinawatra; Economic Adviser; Khmer; Thailand

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When Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen appointed Thaksin Shinawatra as "economic adviser" to the Phnom Penh government, Thailand reacted strongly, canceling a 2001 memorandum of understanding on overlapping maritime boundaries. Diplomats from both countries have been recalled, and a Thai engineer working in Cambodia has been arrested and charged with spying. This is hardly just a "spat"—which is how the Thai media seems to treat the current standoff. But it also is not the most serious crisis in the history of Thai-Cambodian relations. Despite sharing the same religion and a similar culture, Thailand and Cambodia have seldom been on good terms. Dissidents from one country have often sought refuge in the other. The Cambodians have never forgotten that they once ruled over a mighty empire including large parts of present-day northeastern Thailand and southern Vietnam. Some of Thailand's most spectacular temples were built during this time, among them Phanom Rung in Buriram, one of three Khmer-speaking provinces in Thailand. Another Khmer temple complex from the same era—the 11th century Prasat Preah Vihear, which the Thais call Prasat Khao Phra Viharn—lies right on Cambodia's border with Thailand's Sisaket province, and the ownership of that site has been the subject of a long-standing dispute between the two nations.

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