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Classes at over 40 schools in Si Sa Ket called off for ICJ ruling
The Nation November 11, 2013 1:00 am
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CLASSES AT more than 40 schools on the Si Sa Ket side of the Preah Vihear Temple have been cancelled for two days so that students can stay with their families as the world court delivers its ruling on the territorial dispute with Cambodia today.
Principals, teachers and staff have been instructed to be at work today and tomorrow. At night, monitors are on watch for break-ins.
Schoolchildren need to be close to their families so that they can evacuate their homes if border fighting and artillery shelling break out.
In Bangkok, concrete barricades have sprung up in front of and around the Cambodian Embassy on Pracha-Uthit Road in Wang Thonglang district, partially blocking traffic lanes and causing congestion even on the weekend.
Anti-riot police are standing guard at the main gate and the large space in the back has been turned into a rest area for off-shift police. Heavy traffic jams are expected today before and during the ruling, which will be read out at 4pm Bangkok time.
Samarn Sri-ngarm, a nationalist campaigner, said his group was prevented from entering the temple compound by soldiers.
Samarn insisted on two principles against the ruling, which would probably be in favour of Cambodia - that the 4.6-square-kilometre site that the temple sits on remains under Thai sovereignty, and that a people's assembly be established in place of Parliament.
Another campaigner, Wicharn Thapson, said he was illegally ar-rested by Cambodian soldiers when he and his fellow activists held a meditation ceremony at a wooden bridge leading to the temple. He said the arrests were unlawful because the world court had ruled in 1962 that the bridge was located on Thai soil.
Classes at over 40 schools in Si Sa Ket called off for ICJ ruling
The Nation November 11, 2013 1:00 am
Arrow PrevArrow Next12
CLASSES AT more than 40 schools on the Si Sa Ket side of the Preah Vihear Temple have been cancelled for two days so that students can stay with their families as the world court delivers its ruling on the territorial dispute with Cambodia today.
Principals, teachers and staff have been instructed to be at work today and tomorrow. At night, monitors are on watch for break-ins.
Schoolchildren need to be close to their families so that they can evacuate their homes if border fighting and artillery shelling break out.
In Bangkok, concrete barricades have sprung up in front of and around the Cambodian Embassy on Pracha-Uthit Road in Wang Thonglang district, partially blocking traffic lanes and causing congestion even on the weekend.
Anti-riot police are standing guard at the main gate and the large space in the back has been turned into a rest area for off-shift police. Heavy traffic jams are expected today before and during the ruling, which will be read out at 4pm Bangkok time.
Samarn Sri-ngarm, a nationalist campaigner, said his group was prevented from entering the temple compound by soldiers.
Samarn insisted on two principles against the ruling, which would probably be in favour of Cambodia - that the 4.6-square-kilometre site that the temple sits on remains under Thai sovereignty, and that a people's assembly be established in place of Parliament.
Another campaigner, Wicharn Thapson, said he was illegally ar-rested by Cambodian soldiers when he and his fellow activists held a meditation ceremony at a wooden bridge leading to the temple. He said the arrests were unlawful because the world court had ruled in 1962 that the bridge was located on Thai soil.
