(Video) Selected Comments of Samdech Thipadei Hun Manet. The government protect every inch of the border

(11) The government protect every inch of the border

The foundation that we are wishing for building a human resource through education and training is to make our country strong, capable of thinking together to maintain national development […] recently, there have been movements of (the opposition) politicians to promote nationalism in both Thailand and Cambodia aimed at aggravating the situation related to the two countries’ border areas at Ta Moan Temple, Koh Kut, after they had caused misunderstandings about CLV-DTA […] the border is an issue that everyone thinks about it, not only (those who claimed themselves) nationalists. The whole government, the border officials, are also nationalists and they may be the ardent nationalists because they are the ones who negotiate, sometimes without food or water, to protect each centimeter of the border. The border issue is not an easy matter that can be resolved in just one day […] we all love the nation, but the government has a heavier responsibility than others before/in the history […]

(12) Cambodia wishes to resolve the issue peacefully, but reserves the right to defend itself by all means

Regarding this issue, it is the Cambodian position to resolve it through negotiations based on technical grounds, the border map from the French era in 1908, and various other legal tools, such as the MOU 2000 and/or other agreements […] taking this opportunity, please allow me to send a message to both the Cambodian and Thai politicians – “don’t bring politics into technical matters because politicians are no more knowledgeable about technical matters than geographers. Let the technicians work on technical matters.” The border issue is related to technical matters and international law […] on the basis of maintaining sovereignty, Cambodia will find a way to resolve the issues through the mechanism we have officially agreed upon, which is the Cambodia-Thailand Joint Border Committee […] Cambodia wants to resolve the issue peacefully, but reserves the right to defend itself by all means, including the use of armed force, if any country dares to use armed force to invade Cambodia […]

(13) Leading soldiers to fight and die, countries to look at each other not in the eyes is not patriotic

I am calling on some who claimed themselves nationalists not to bring politics to the forefront to cause problems and do not claim yourselves the patriotic alone. Leading soldiers to fight and die and leading countries to have the impossibility to look at each other straight in the eyes is not patriotic. The government, government officials, myself, my father, my family – we are also patriotic, and we have worked a lot to serve this nation as well […] Samdech Techo led the defense of the territory, such as lately in 2008, when we clashed at Preah Vihear until 2011, […] the Hun family is the one who had been to be in charge of the defense of the O’ Alai and O’ Tangao areas (in the border war) […] the Hun family also joined in combat against Covid-19 […] my clan, my family, my father, and I are patriotic too. If formulating and launching the win-win policy that ended the 500-year war that affected the lives of the people is not patriotism, what is? Samdech Techo with all the leaders of the Royal Government has been building and strengthening every sector, including the education sector […]

(14) You not accuse everyone else treasonous just because they use different method from yours

Let me affirm to the armies of both sides that, in the phase where the border has not been resolved by the Joint Border Committee, the armies have no responsibility to resolve the border issue. The armies support the two governments in resolving the border through technical mechanisms without the use the army or the use of force to resolve it […] I may ask those in France, who sit and curse every day, (have they not thought at all,) when this army commander from the Hun family, whom they accuse of treason, that he went to every part of the country to strengthen the army and help the army to defend our country? This is what I have participated in, and my family has done too. You may keep saying what patriotic you were but you may not accuse everyone else treasonous just because they use method that is different from what you yourself demand […]