By Mayarith
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
Bangkok police arrested 51 Cambodians who are accused of illegal border crossing, among those arrested are 8 Cambodian Muslisms who plan to travel to Southern Thailand currently under turmoil.
The arrest of the Cambodians, including Cambodian Muslims, on Wednesday took place after a report was issued by Thailand’s supreme commander, General Boonsang Niempradit, stating that the Thai authority is currently investigating the suspected Cambodian Muslisms, who are crossing the border from Cambodia to Thailand, for (possible) involvement with Thai Muslim insurgents in Southern Thailand.
Among all the Cambodians arrested, the 8 Cambodian Muslims are being further questioned when they told the Thai police that they plan to go look for work in Thailand southern provinces: Pattani and Narathiwat.
Thai newspapers reported that the 8 Cambodian Muslims told the Thai police that they each paid 5,000 bath (~$145) to middlemen to take them to find work in the 3 southernmost provinces of Thailand.
In Cambodia, Sos Camrey, the director of a Muslim group in Cambodia, told RFA that ift is the Thai authority’s right to arrest anybody who are illegally crossing into Thailand, but he is calling for a detailed investigation on the suspicion surrounding the 8 Cambodian Muslims whom the Thai authority want to know more of their involvement with Thai insurgents.
Sos Camrey said: “There is no problem for me (for the arrest), I don’t say anything because it is up to the government of each country to see what is right (for its country), I agree to that. The charges depend on the evidence.”
The report indicated that among the 51 people arrested in Thailand, 48 of them were arrested at the Sakeo border gate, whereas the other 3 were arrested when they were crossing the border in Aranyaprathet.
The arrest of the Cambodians, including Cambodian Muslims, on Wednesday took place after a report was issued by Thailand’s supreme commander, General Boonsang Niempradit, stating that the Thai authority is currently investigating the suspected Cambodian Muslisms, who are crossing the border from Cambodia to Thailand, for (possible) involvement with Thai Muslim insurgents in Southern Thailand.
Among all the Cambodians arrested, the 8 Cambodian Muslims are being further questioned when they told the Thai police that they plan to go look for work in Thailand southern provinces: Pattani and Narathiwat.
Thai newspapers reported that the 8 Cambodian Muslims told the Thai police that they each paid 5,000 bath (~$145) to middlemen to take them to find work in the 3 southernmost provinces of Thailand.
In Cambodia, Sos Camrey, the director of a Muslim group in Cambodia, told RFA that ift is the Thai authority’s right to arrest anybody who are illegally crossing into Thailand, but he is calling for a detailed investigation on the suspicion surrounding the 8 Cambodian Muslims whom the Thai authority want to know more of their involvement with Thai insurgents.
Sos Camrey said: “There is no problem for me (for the arrest), I don’t say anything because it is up to the government of each country to see what is right (for its country), I agree to that. The charges depend on the evidence.”
The report indicated that among the 51 people arrested in Thailand, 48 of them were arrested at the Sakeo border gate, whereas the other 3 were arrested when they were crossing the border in Aranyaprathet.
3 comments:
The Thaicong are scare now! I have to wonder why the Thaicong kept picking on the helpless dirt poor Khmer Muslim! Tell me, what can the Thaicong achieve by arresting these 8 dirt poor helpless Khmer Muslim who only mission is to look for a job in Southern Thailane? The Thaicong had the same intractbale problem with Southern Thailane Muslim more than 50 years ago! If the Thaicong think that they can solve the instability of Southern Thailane with the arrest of 8 Khmer Muslim is just ludicrous! The fucken Thaicong are playing double standard here because it is so easy to place the blame on Khmer Muslim than on the Malaysia and Indonesia Muslim because AH HUN SEN Vietcong never care about a damn thing about any Cambodian people!
Thaicong are doing all these thing just to hide a bigger problem! If the fucken Thaicong keep arresting more innocence Muslim and one day the Jidhadist will come to Thailane...Well, actually the Jihadist are already in Thailane! ahahahhah
Maybe Thai authority is right. I notice that our Khmer Muslim compatriots behave more Arab than Khmer or CHAM since they have received a lot of aids from Arab Countries.
I use to respect and have sympathy to the Khmer Muslim who have been neglected by our Government. But I think a small group of them might be involved in those activities. Let wait and see!
To 11:45AM Thaicong sympathizer!
You are so fucken stupid to say that "Maybe Thai authority is right." No fool speaks without evidence especially when the fool is a high government official! If you talk shit without evidence in the court room, the judge will throw the book at your face!
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