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Commentary: Who is flaring-up of tension? Be Sincere in Year of Tiger

By Sam Sotha On Wednesday, December 30, 2009, the Thai Central Administrative Court ordered the revocation of a resolution passed by the Samak Sundaravej cabinet, which had approved the Thai-Cambodian joint communiqué supporting Cambodia's bid to list the Temple of Preah Vihear as a World Heritage site with the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The Court ordered the revocation of the communiqué as requested by the petitioners: Nitithorn Lamlua, a lawyer for the People's Alliance for Democracy, and eight other lawyers who had filed a petition with the Court. In fact, the Thai people, including the chairman of the Thailand Heritage Committee and especially Mr. Abhisit Government themselves, were already well aware of the fact that the World Heritage Committee (WHC) had given heavy consideration to the report of the International Council for Monuments and Sites as a basis for making the decision. In the same line with the group’s petition ...