AN OPEN LETTER TO “ PRINCESS Vanvipha Charoonrot”
Walwipa2000@hotmail.com
Dear “ Princess”
I might write your name incorrectly in English. The point here was that I intended to bring some senses to your thinking and doing about the Temple of Preah Vihear.
In general terms, between the two of us, let’s talk “from a Marine to a Marine” to use an American military slang. To be a good human being and to be a good neighbor to all Cambodians, you must know and respect the international rules of law, and understand what the World Heritage Committee (WHC) from Christchurch, NZ in 2007, to Quebec, Canada in 2008, and to Seville Spain, in 2009 have done, related to the Temple of Preah Vihear. Please read Decision 31COM 8B.24, Decision 32COM 8B.102, and Decision 33COM 7B.65 (just a mere few pages of reading) by the WHC for those last three sessions, if you think that you are yet a respectable and lovable human being and a world citizen, and not just only a citizen of the Kingdom of Thailand. Despite that Thailand had never been under the domination and the rule of any foreign powers, yet that is not a license to be arrogant, disrespectful of internationally accepted rules of laws, and to trample under foot the dignity of human being as a way to elevate your own ego to the point of being despicable.
Please stay with the fact, the history as it is and not as what you wish it to be, and the international rules of laws, then you move yourself from the darkness of un-intellectuality, pretensions, malice and all other undignified designs to harm others, and especially your neighbor to the other side of the fence and become a dignified humanist, a citizen of the 1972 Convention among the citizens of another 185 countries beside Thailand.
For the case of the Temple of Preah Vihear, one thing that you or any other person, powerful or not, filthy rich or not cannot change is that the Temple of Preah Vihear is a Khmer property, and was inscribed to the World Heritage List on 7 July 2008 at the 32nd Session of the WHC, Quebec, Canada. Your off-base contention that you picked off the “judgment of Thailand Central Administrative Court, 30 December 2009” that the 18 June 2008 Joint Communique cannot be used to support the inscription of the Temple of Preah Vihear to the World Heritage List” has no bearing one way or another on the inscription of the Temple of Preah Vihear, as it has been explained clearly in the text of the Decision 32COM 8B. 102, paragraph 5, which I am pleased to enclosed herewith: “Recognizing that the Joint Communiqué signed on 18 June 2008 by the representatives of the Governments of Cambodia and Thailand, as well as by UNESCO, including its draft which was erroneously referred to as having been signed on 22 and 23 May 2008 in the document WHC-08/32.COM/INF.8B1.Add.2, must be disregarded, following the decision of the Government of Thailand to suspend the effect of the Joint Communiqué, pursuant to the Thai Administrative Court’s interim injunction on this issue,” and further under its paragraph 14 the WHC “Inscribesthe Temple of Preah Vihear, Cambodia, on the World Heritage List under criterion (i); In plain English, this means that the WHC disregarded totally and completely the 18 June Joint Communique, when inscribed the Temple of Preah Vihear on the World Heritage List. This means as well that the 30 December 2009 judgment of Thailand Central Administrative Court has no bearing on Decision 32COM8B. 102. It was simply the act of completing and closing the case and to close the docket at year end by Thailand Central Administrative Court.
Dear princess, If you consider this letter as a lesson in international matters, I am very much flattered and a thank you note from you would be enough.
For all the friendship that exists between Khmers and Thais, and for further fostering the understanding between the two peoples, I recommended that you have your people translate this letter into Thai and communicate my entire text with some 20 organizations you have so far involved in your ill-enterprising, which is of no use for your good name. I can see that you would want to remain a respectable and lovable human being.
Sincerely Yours,
Pen Ngoeun
Former Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Business & Economics
Pannasastra University of Cambodia,
Advisor at University of Puthisastra,
Advisor to the Office of the Council of Ministers
Of the Government of the Kingdom of Cambodia
e-mail: ngoeuncom@yahoo.com
N.B. I knew many respectable Thai scholars. If you check with among the leadership of Durakit
Pandit University (DPU) Bangkok, you may get information about me.
Walwipa2000@hotmail.com
Dear “ Princess”
I might write your name incorrectly in English. The point here was that I intended to bring some senses to your thinking and doing about the Temple of Preah Vihear.
In general terms, between the two of us, let’s talk “from a Marine to a Marine” to use an American military slang. To be a good human being and to be a good neighbor to all Cambodians, you must know and respect the international rules of law, and understand what the World Heritage Committee (WHC) from Christchurch, NZ in 2007, to Quebec, Canada in 2008, and to Seville Spain, in 2009 have done, related to the Temple of Preah Vihear. Please read Decision 31COM 8B.24, Decision 32COM 8B.102, and Decision 33COM 7B.65 (just a mere few pages of reading) by the WHC for those last three sessions, if you think that you are yet a respectable and lovable human being and a world citizen, and not just only a citizen of the Kingdom of Thailand. Despite that Thailand had never been under the domination and the rule of any foreign powers, yet that is not a license to be arrogant, disrespectful of internationally accepted rules of laws, and to trample under foot the dignity of human being as a way to elevate your own ego to the point of being despicable.
Please stay with the fact, the history as it is and not as what you wish it to be, and the international rules of laws, then you move yourself from the darkness of un-intellectuality, pretensions, malice and all other undignified designs to harm others, and especially your neighbor to the other side of the fence and become a dignified humanist, a citizen of the 1972 Convention among the citizens of another 185 countries beside Thailand.
For the case of the Temple of Preah Vihear, one thing that you or any other person, powerful or not, filthy rich or not cannot change is that the Temple of Preah Vihear is a Khmer property, and was inscribed to the World Heritage List on 7 July 2008 at the 32nd Session of the WHC, Quebec, Canada. Your off-base contention that you picked off the “judgment of Thailand Central Administrative Court, 30 December 2009” that the 18 June 2008 Joint Communique cannot be used to support the inscription of the Temple of Preah Vihear to the World Heritage List” has no bearing one way or another on the inscription of the Temple of Preah Vihear, as it has been explained clearly in the text of the Decision 32COM 8B. 102, paragraph 5, which I am pleased to enclosed herewith: “Recognizing that the Joint Communiqué signed on 18 June 2008 by the representatives of the Governments of Cambodia and Thailand, as well as by UNESCO, including its draft which was erroneously referred to as having been signed on 22 and 23 May 2008 in the document WHC-08/32.COM/INF.8B1.Add.2, must be disregarded, following the decision of the Government of Thailand to suspend the effect of the Joint Communiqué, pursuant to the Thai Administrative Court’s interim injunction on this issue,” and further under its paragraph 14 the WHC “Inscribesthe Temple of Preah Vihear, Cambodia, on the World Heritage List under criterion (i); In plain English, this means that the WHC disregarded totally and completely the 18 June Joint Communique, when inscribed the Temple of Preah Vihear on the World Heritage List. This means as well that the 30 December 2009 judgment of Thailand Central Administrative Court has no bearing on Decision 32COM8B. 102. It was simply the act of completing and closing the case and to close the docket at year end by Thailand Central Administrative Court.
Dear princess, If you consider this letter as a lesson in international matters, I am very much flattered and a thank you note from you would be enough.
For all the friendship that exists between Khmers and Thais, and for further fostering the understanding between the two peoples, I recommended that you have your people translate this letter into Thai and communicate my entire text with some 20 organizations you have so far involved in your ill-enterprising, which is of no use for your good name. I can see that you would want to remain a respectable and lovable human being.
Sincerely Yours,
Pen Ngoeun
Former Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Business & Economics
Pannasastra University of Cambodia,
Advisor at University of Puthisastra,
Advisor to the Office of the Council of Ministers
Of the Government of the Kingdom of Cambodia
e-mail: ngoeuncom@yahoo.com
N.B. I knew many respectable Thai scholars. If you check with among the leadership of Durakit
Pandit University (DPU) Bangkok, you may get information about me.
