[Tlc] TC-Charnvit Kasetsiri on Khao Phra Wihan/Preah Vihear

[justinm at ucr.edu]

Please see Dr. Charnvit Kasetsiri's message and link to his article below.
Thank you,
justin

Preah Vihear: A traumatic and sad story of stone of the two nations:

I am sorry to say that

many of us are doing disservice to the country.


The question of the Preah Vihear was settled

by King Chulalongkonr and

Prince Damrong, his Interior Minister in 1907.

It was to save sovereignty of Siam

and that Siemreap, Battambang, Srisophon

were exchanged with

Chanthaburi, Trad, and Dansai (Loei).

But this was not recognized by Phibun nor Sarit,

when in 1939 Siam became Thailand and that

ultra nationalism was running high, in 1940s and 1960s; 

and it is rerunning now.

 

I am sure we will regret this.

And what I could say is that:

Father forgive them they know not what they do.

Regards.

Charnvit

 

PS: Please see my article on the Preah Vihear:
 
http://www.charnvitkasetsiri.com/Articles.html
 
http://www.charnvitkasetsiri.com/PDF/PreahVihearFor20June.pdf

Charnvit Kasetsiri, Ph.D.

Senior Adviser and Lecturer
Southeast Asian Studies Program
Thammasat University
Bangkok 10200, Siam (not Thailand)
 
Secretary
Social Sciences and Humanities Textbook Foundation
413/38 Arun-Amarin Rd.,
Bangkok 10700, Siam 
handphone 089-476-0505
e-mail: charnvitkasetsiri at yahoo.com; 
h-pages: http://textbooksproject.com/HOME.html,
http://www.tu.ac.th/org/arts/seas;
662-424-5768, fax. 662-433-8713

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Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
3046 INTN
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
951-827-4530
justinm at ucr.edu