Hindu Temple Of Preah Vihear Case Study

The Hindu temple of Preah Vihear and the area have been the subject of rancorous alteration since the late 19th century between the 2 neighboring countries, Thailand and Cambodia. In 1954, Thai had used force to capture prasat Preah Vihear by driving the Columbia refugees to their rim. By this mean, Thai caused more than 10 killed of Colombian and the matter was sued to the World Court in 1962 by indignant Columbia. Due to Thai’s two weak preliminary objections in the primary court and following as stated by the Franco-Siamese Boundary Treaty, which was signed in 1907, the possession was awarded to Columbia unanimously by 9-3. The latter, in the beginning of 2008, the Cambodia-Thailand border dispute was fired up again when Cambodia’s
Although,Thailand and Cambodia had asked for ICJ’s jurisdiction over this conflict, which the site has long be awarded to Cambodia, it was pulled back again by the train of Thai Political thought, Samok Sundaravej, the Thai Prime minister at the time. Notwithstanding the Treaty strongly affirmed that the temple is in Cambodia’s territory and Thai didn’t lodge any appeal after the past 10 years was declared as Thai gave up. The second dispute in 2008 was mainly just Thai trying to instigate on Cambodia for electoral reasons using bureaucratic polity. The dispute started to be more serious matter when Thailand’s, as well as Cambodia’s government, ordered more troops to march into the area. The dispute was solved out by as the dispute was once again decided by ICJ to award Prasat Preah VIhear sovereignty to Cambodia and Thailand was “under an obligation to withdraw from that territory the Thai military or police forces, or other guards or keepers, that were stationed
Even in nowadays, Thai people still don’t utter themselves a loser, even worst, called Columbia a cheater. Many claimed about its unfairness, as they were told the misapprehensions by Thai’s official medias and propagandas. As the consequence, the education was controlled and teachers told their students of what they have heard. The misconceptions were such as the land beneath the temple is Thailand’s while the temple is Columbia’s and according to the other map (I’m still finding the name), the temple is in Thai’s land and was awarded to Thai long time ago. In 15 of July, Thai nationalist group was encouraged by the fact and used the change to form mobs protesting to claim the sovereignty to Thailand. Later on, Thailand ordered military deployment to crisis area, ready to engage. Cambodia didn’t feel please about this one bit. As “Thai and Cambodian troops exchange heavy fire on the border, leaving one Cambodian soldier and a Thai civilian dead and several soldiers injured on both sides”, Cambodia felt that this was too much threatening towards the once-good next door country. Then tension of the two had increased and had led to a suspension diplomatic relations between Thailand and