Cambodia has a lot of ancient temple in most provinces. Among those, Prasat Preah Vihea is a sacred shrine which is locate on the very high and smooth plateau along the Dang Rek Mountain in Preah Vihea province. This shrine first building by the King Yasa Varaman in 9th century. All forms of this temple are the basic of khmer arts include plann, building drafts, and other sculptures. On the sculptures we can only see khmer Script and Sanskrit. These evidence clearly verified that “Preah Vihea ” belonging to Cambodia.
Under French colony,Preah Vihea temple was controlled by Seim (Thailand). Although our country got independent from French, Seim did not give it to Khmer. Moreover, Seim had used all kinds of malfeasant tricks and declared that Preah Vihea belonged to them. In 1962 under the premiership of king Norodom Sihanouk, the king had tired all his best in demanding by peaceful talk. Finally the international court at Lahe had judg in unanimity that Preah Vihea belonged to Cambodia on 15th june 1962.
These enthusiastic news had spread across the whole countries that made all Khmer people very happy and cheerful to congratulate in accept this temple which was becoming as the Khmer Heritage as before.
For this testimony of satisfaction the chief of state king Norodom Sihanouk made a formal visit to Preah Vihea to be the symbol of Khmer Heritage on 5th January 1963.
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