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Cambodians have shown their anger mounts on illegal wading to Cambodia territory around the Preah Vihear temple by Thai troops. For some reasons, This over 3-decade war still makes people remind of how Thai troops want to take Cambodian land as their own property.

The wading of Thailand has become more aggressive because Cambodia has put Preah Vihear Temple to a United Nations World Heritage Site. The dispute of over 3 decades about the over 900 year old temple doesn’t seem to finish although it was declared by The International Court of Justice to Cambodia in 1962.

The aggressive and strong man who had just won the election with 90 seats recently,Hun Sen, Cambodian Prime Minister has made his speech that the land around Preah Vihear Temple is a “Dead Zone” if Thailand objected to withdraw the troops from Cambodian territory but Thais denied that they were not crossing into Cambodia.

Some political people said “it is time that Hun Sen needs to give out his strength to his troops and people. He had achieved many things in his life and it is time that he should do something and sacrificed for his own country. Some people said” Cambodia needs a lot of things to improve, but first we have to fight with Thailand in order to finish this long lasting over 3-decade war. Although, Cambodian army is not all-equipped if comparing to Thai Troops, but Cambodian has many experienced fighters in guerrilla warfare.

Cambodia has held its own ceremony of 3 dead soldiers across the country- by this reason, it makes a lot of Cambodian anger with Thai troops so bad in the event of Thai Troops and Cambodian exchanged gunfire around Prasat Preah Vihear on 15th-10-08.

Although, there are high tension between Cambodia and Thailand but Cambodian and Thai government seem to seek for diplomatic solution to the crisis matter. Both Prime Minister Hun Sen and Somchai Wongsawat are planning to have a peace discussion while in Beijing with European leaders.

But no body know, because Cambodian and Thai Troops are still showing the hard-biting teeth to each other around Preah Vihear Temple.