Thursday, July 03, 2008

1st [Thai] army chief: No tension along Thai-Cambodian border

1st Thai-Cambodian border calm, army reports

Wednesday, July 2, 2008
TNA

First Army Region Commander Lt-Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha on Wednesday indicated that the controversial issue of the attempted registration of Preah Vihear temple as a World Heritage Site had not caused any tension on the shared border of Thailand and Cambodia.

He said the First Army Region oversees the common border and overlapping areas.

Officers from Gen Prayuth's region are in continued close contact with both Cambodian and Thai military units along the border. He said that the temple issue had not caused any border tension.

Residents on both sides of the border continued trading with each other as usual, he said, and were not paying much attention to the matter.

Gen Prayuth said the temple registration practically involved tourism, but the matter has become politicised and has caused some confusion. The Thai commander advised everyone to consider carefully what is right or wrong.

"We want our citizens to pay attention to the situation. Military personnel and civil servants assigned in the area will do their best to deal with the issue," he said. "We have shared affection for our country."

Gen. Prayuth said he had always instructed his subordinates to perform their duties to the utmost of their ability, particularly in protecting the borders and keeping the peace.

"In particular, a key mission of the military is to protect and maintain our land. We think there will be a good resolution of the situation," he said.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh good, but stay awake at all time, Chief. If any of Ah Karmen started anything, just throw them off the 600 meters cliff.

Anonymous said...

Hun Sen should roll his tanks to the streets of Bangkok!

Anonymous said...

Hun sen'S tanks are for crushing khmers oppositions only.

Anonymous said...

we don't need to spend fuel for Hun Sen's Tanks to crush Bangkok(as the oil price is high), coz Bangkok itself is sitting on the powerful earthquake...so just prepare yourseslf to scrumble, ladyboy (7.01am)

Anonymous said...

Who worried about earthquake when the Khmer Empire got plenty room to stay.

Anonymous said...

HUN SEN's tanks are a piece of junk.One shot from B-40 they became ash instantly.

Anonymous said...

you(9.35am) people are worry about the earthquake, you will be saying hello to your grandpa very soon.I wish that day will come so soon.

Anonymous said...

Yes only if the thai military person know how to use the b-40 and brave enough to face the real enemies.Thai tank are ain't all that either,they all work broke down by itself before it even get to the front line.We khmer will not need any thing more than a shoulder fire missle to destroy the old thai tanks and copters.If war time would come between thai and khmer,cambodia will have a perfect place to destroy all the sam/ssm missles we don't need.The US and the world won't need to spend money to the khmer government to destroy these missles anymore.
IF WAR COME,IF WE LOSE THAT WAR,WE ALL KHMER WILL TERRORIZED THAILAND UNTIL IT DISAPPEAR FROM THE WORLD.IF WE KHMER DIE,WE WILL MAKE THAILAND A GRAVEYARD.
KHMER FRANCE.

Anonymous said...

Yes, if all your khmers died and became evil you still can make the Thai people got stomach ach(chok puos).

Anonymous said...

9:51, if your house burned down or whatever, I want you to know that you can always move back to the old house where you were raised. I am sure your parent don't mind.