Xieng Teng (Stung Treng), Why was it given to Cambodia Options

[Manleow]

Well i came to some infomation about why the French Gave Stung Treng to Cambodia.

I was going to post it on Khmer Chat, but there are t0o many Trolls there who cant have a civil conversatoin.

So i decided to post it on Lao Chat, since it is a province in Cambodia mainly made up of Lao ppl.

This post has been edited by Manleow: Apr 20 2008, 06:41 PM

[Manleow]

The infomation goes as following:

After long discussions and an agreement between France and Thailand on 7 October 1902 whereby in order to get Chantaboon back to Thailand and to abolish the 25 kilometer zone on the right bank of the Mekhong River. Thailand agreed to cede the two southern provinces of Melouprey (Manoprai in Thai) and Champasak to France. France retreated from Chantaboon but seized Trat and Darnsai instead. The French Parliament would not ratify this treaty since, as master and heir of Cambodia, the two Camboidan provinces of Battambong and Sieamrap were not considered in this treaty. The French Parliament wanted more. Moreover the King of Luang Prabang was suzereign of both banks of the river and not only of one bank. His privileges over the right bank opposite to Luang Prabang had not been considered at all. The French therefore negotiated for the Convention of 13 Feb. 1904 which settled the boundary to be futher ceded, but it did not restitute the two Cambodian provinces mentioned above to Cambodia. It only imposed upon the Thai not to keep any military contingentes in the said two pronvinces, Thus preparing for the next step, when they finally annexed them in 1907. The French compensated Cambodia at the time by giving them the Lao province of Stung-Treng and half of Khong Province, and this is how this Lao territory of Stung-Treng, Peopled by Lao, is to be found attached to Cambodia to this day, Laos was futher amputated. Half of the Province of Attopeu and the Plateau of Darlac were given to Vietnam.

This final boundary of Laos was again to be regulated by the treaty of 23 March 1907 when Darnsai was given to Thailand in exchange for Trat, which France agreed to return to Thailand. This treaty of 1907 at last fixed the boundary as Laos has found herself today. The strip of land on the right bank of luang Prabang was now ceded by Thailand and given to Laos. Thailand also had to give up the Three Cambodian provinces of battambong, Sieamrap, and Sisophon to France as a result of the 1907 treaty. This treaty was at last ratified by the Frnch Parliament on 21 June 1907, and the era of disputes between Thaialnd and France has at last come to an end.

Well the infomation is pretty much as Lao members had been saying all along.