A Change of Guard

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Tuesday 13 January 2015

Tensions increase between Thailand and Cambodia

Tensions increase between Thailand and Cambodia
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Cambodian press allege Thai soldiers 'admit' burning alive two Cambodian motorbike smugglers, whilst claims that Cambodian police accused of threatening villagers, while searching for Montagnards seeking asylum from Vietnam.

World Bulletin / News Desk
Thai military officials have denied a report published Monday in the Cambodian press alleging its soldiers had “admitted” they had burned alive two Cambodian motorbike smugglers.
“We beg the Cambodian side not to speak like this. Making such comments causes damages because Thai-Cambodian relations are currently good,” the Bangkok Post newspaper reported a highly placed source within the Burapha Task Force, the military unit in charge of securing the Thai-Cambodian border, as saying.
On Monday, Cambodia's Phnom Penh daily newspaper quoted Cambodian military officials in Battambang province as saying that the soldiers had killed the two men who had evaded tax in Cambodia and were trying to cross illegally with two other men and the motorbike into Thailand.
“While they were dragging the motorcycle across the border, the soldiers shot at them, but all bullets missed. So they deployed more soldiers and arrested the two Cambodians while the other two escaped,” said Anh Kamal, deputy military commander in Battambang Sampov Loun district, according to the Phnom Penh Post.
"The soldiers burnt the two men alive in car tires,” he added.
The article - under the title “Thais ‘admit’ to burn deaths”  - also said locals had posted pictures of the murder sites online.

The Thai military source quoted by the Bangkok Post said that authorities from the two countries had discussed the incident and the Thai side had made it clear that their soldiers were not involved in the deaths.
The Phnom Penh Post affirmed that the “charred remains” of the victims had been sent to Bangkok for forensic examination and to “determine the identities of the victims.”
Bangkok has not confirmed the allegation.
Relations between Thailand and Cambodia have long been difficult, particularly since 2008 when armed incidents took place between the two countries' militaries in relation to the sovereignty of border land near the Preah Vihear temple.
The temple lies in an 11th century compound which had been attributed to Cambodia by the International Court of Justice of The Hague in 1962, a judgment reluctantly accepted by Bangkok.
After Thai military overthrew the civilian government of Yingluck Shinawatra in a coup on May 22, relations seemed to improve between the two countries - Phnom Penh releasing in July a prominent Thai prisoner, Veera Somkwamkid, and his secretary, Ratree Pipatanapaibul. 
But in the last few weeks, some incidents have shown an increase in tension.
On Dec. 24, Thai defense minister General Prawit Wongsuwan recognized during a visit to Phnom Penh that Thai soldiers had sometimes shot and killed Cambodians in the border area, and proposed to pay compensation. 
At the beginning of this month, Thailand also closed a crossing point and sent 200 soldiers there after Cambodia brought heavy machinery near the border to build a road. Thai officials said that the work could alter the border demarcation. The border crossing was reopened Jan. 9 after Cambodia stopped the construction.
Cambodian police accused of threats, intimidation
 The search for five missing asylum seekers in a remote part of Cambodia was called into question by indigenous villagers over the weekend, who formally accused armed police forces of harassing them during their search.
A report in The Cambodia Daily on Monday said seven ethnic Jarai tribe members complained to Adhoc - a rights group based in Cambodia - Sunday. They allege that officials carrying out door-to-door searches for the missing Montagnard asylum seekers—who fled to Cambodia from Vietnam Jan. 3—were intimidating and threatening them.
According to the report, the complainants now want the Montagnards to leave Cambodia, in order for some normalcy to be restored to the area.
One of the Jarai men who filed the complaint told The Cambodia Daily that he feared reprisals, “so we need the Montagnards to leave.”
The report also quoted a local police chief, Klam Thoeung, as saying that the search would continue, because Cambodian officials do not want Vietnam accusing the country of harboring its people. He also denied that there was any plan to arrest the villagers, despite their allegations of such threats. 
National police spokesman Kirth Chantharith could not be reached for comment. 

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

TYhe thai so mean as like as vietnam,they both always a bad tactics for centureries.

Anonymous said...

How much itcost to mmake a nuk bomb I need two for Bangkok ah bhumibol adulyadej must swimming in hell boiler room. The thaithug calculating everyday for centuries to eliminate khmer .....,and we keep dividing each other. ...you know each time you creat chaos unstable our enemies got a huge advantage to swallow us....and thos idiot never learn .....too headach sharing life with too many idiot. ...even you khmerization are one of those for so long. .. how that happen a wiseman like you stuck with cruel idiot khmer rouge killer.

For Zion Sake said...


It seem the Thai is playing the Palestinian rebel style of revenge or just pure delight in seeing another human being get killed because of remote location all in the name of protection of its border and property. I don't mind if they catch them a give them a good licking as a deterrent of not stealing rosewood or whatever, but to shoot and kill on the spot is law of death without mercy. I know Thai do that to drug dealers, but for someone foraging for food is not crime of death.

I submit, vengeance belongs to God and he will repay according to his measure that is due them.

Magog