evidence: A. OWNERSHIP AND RESENTMENT OVER PREAH VIHEAR [3] Like many South East Asian countries, Thailand and Cambodia still share a colonial legacy of an ambiguous border. In 1954, Thai troops occupied and claimed Preah Vihear, located about 400km north of Phnom Penh. Five years later, Cambodia took Thailand to the ICJ on the basis of colonial-era treaties and other documents in an attempt to regain what it regarded as part of its cultural heritage, arguing that the temple was inextricably linked to its Angkor Wat complex, 140km to the south west. In 1962, the ICJ ruled that the temple was "situated in territory under the sovereignty of Cambodia", mostly on the basis of a Franco-Siamese 1908 map that clearly showed the temple within the Cambodian border. […] It has been government policy ever since that the temple complex is in Cambodia. […] [4] Although the ICJ clearly determined the ownership of the Preah Vihear temple, the frontier around the cliff- top site remains in dispute. […]