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Translated from Khmer by Heng Soy
An independent source indicated that Thai army chief hid the information about the number of its soldiers killed and injured. A reliable source said that there were 7 Thai soldiers killed, and a number of these dead soldiers were discovered and taken out from the frontline in the morning of 16 October. Low-ranking Thai soldiers said that 20 of their comrades disappeared, however, they may not be dead but that they have deserted from their rank and they could possibly be found at their homes. At the same time, the same source indicated that 23 Thai soldiers were seriously or slightly injured and 13 Thai soldiers were arrested by Cambodian troops, however, they have already been released now. In Thailand, the land-greedy Thai army chiefs are falsifying the truth about who actually fired first, and they insisted on placing the blame on Cambodia. They are also hiding the actually number of Thai soldiers killed and injured, in order to avoid condemnations from their own people.
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How can they say the truth. But, international communities won't be fooled by them. Most of the international medias have their head officies in BKK; they will risk their business if they dare to report the truth. So, ...
HAhahahahhahahhahha if they are not lying they are not Thai.
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GUYS the thai are ready for war, please check out the forum and also guys support the KHMER. Also may god and buddha bless these khmer heros, won't cowards rather die and protect the mother land from the invading forces.
THEY THAIs are ready for war
We cannot talk about lying or not.
We have to blame our people who did not present all the facts to the press.
Prisoners of war must be shown to the press before release. The same thing, the other thai dead bodies must be presented to the press.
Prisoners of war must be questioned before release. You cannot just release them and say that they prisoners. Who took them back. Or they just let them go.
It's stupid. Stop saying and crying about lying. We have to do our job. We cannot just say and expect the Siams to agree. The Siam people are greedy and they used to be pirates or thiefs for centuries.
To all the khmer official at the border please dont be too nice to thai, they will stab you from the back. this thai diot never give a chance if you on their hand. you know how many khmer people been suffer and kill from this monkey. they kill alot of khmer civilian.
Dear brothers in front line do not go close to ThaiI am seeing the Thai in Khao Idang camp while they killed innocent khmer ,they woke the refugee up one cottage to others to find the Axe and make poor dead khmer crap the axe to avoid the UN put the blame and give them a rough time please no deal and we won't get thrill from the Thai.
GOOD THAI IS THE DEATH THAI.
Of course these Seim Kateuy(man made holes) general are lying through their holes. Read below from the Time magazine:
Trying to Calm Cambodia-Thailand Temple Dispute
By Kevin Doyle / Preah Vihear Friday, Oct. 17, 2008A Cambodian soldier watches arrested Thai soldiers (below) at a pagoda near Preah Vihear temple in Preah Vihear province on October 15, 2008
Tang Chhin Sothy / AFP / Getty Images
There seemed to be only two types of traffic on the roads of Preah Vihear province in northern Cambodia this week: villagers fleeing with their worldly belongings stacked in pick-up trucks, and Cambodian soldiers heading in to fight.
Thai-Cambodian Border Spat Heats Up
The Oscars of the Environment
Legal Blows Imperil Thai Government
Thai and Cambodian forces clashed for more than an hour on Oct. 15 in the disputed border territory around the 11th Century Preah Vihear temple. The fighting left three Cambodian soldiers dead and several Thai troops injured.
Fears of a full-scale war have been put on hold for now. Military commanders from both sides met in Thailand on Oct. 16, to try to cool hostilities. But while the talks produced plenty of words of reconciliation, troops from both countries are busy digging in around Preah Vihear.
On the Cambodian side, trenches and foxholes now pepper the approach road to the mountaintop temple. Soldiers have dug a mortar bunker a stone's throw from the second-level of the beautiful stone Hindu temple complex.
In Sre Am village, around 19 miles (30 km) from Preah Vihear mountain, hundreds of young troops from Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's elite bodyguard unit have set up base, backed by armored personnel carriers and truck-mounted Katyusha rocket launchers. On the Thai side, even as the peace talks were in progress, two Thai fighter jets buzzed around just over the border but in plain view of the Cambodian troops at the temple.
Cambodia and Thailand have wrestled over the temple for years. The immediate spark for this week's clashes was Cambodia's successful listing of Preah Vihear as a UNESCO World Heritage Site earlier this year. Many Thais were angry that Cambodia had unilaterally listed the temple, which they also consider sacred. Thai troops actually occupied the temple until 1962 when, to the chagrin of Bangkok, the International Court of Justice in The Hague ruled that it belonged to Cambodia. Crucially, that ruling did not resolve the issue of ownership of the land around the temple, which both countries continue to claim.
If the fighting re-starts, the fear is not only that more lives will be lost, but that the temple will be damaged. During last week's fighting, an M-79 rifle-fired grenade shot from the nearby Thai frontlines landed a few meters from one of the temple's two imposing stone Nagas — the seven-headed snake deity of the Hindu-Buddhist cosmology. Shrapnel sprayed the area but caused only superficial damage to the sculpture.
Still, says Om Phirum, chief of the heritage police at Preah Vihear temple, it's not the amount of damage to the Naga that matters, but the principle of fighting around such a sacred site. "This is a serious crime," says Om Phirum, as he searches the earth around the impact site for silver-and gold-colored pieces of shrapnel. "This shows that the Thai soldiers do not respect Unesco's listing of the temple as a World Heritage Site. I am seriously concerned that if the fighting continues the temple will be seriously affected."
Troops in the area say they understand the gravity of the situation, and are working to avoid fresh fighting. This week's exchange began when Thai and Cambodian patrols clashed, not because of orders for outright confrontation, says Colonel Som Bopharoath, commander of Cambodian forces in Preah Vihear province. "So far the fighting happened accidentally. It is not intentional," says Som. "Both sides are trying hard not to have a confrontation."
Thai Army Captain Apichat concurs. Apichat, who is based near the temple with a unit of 10 Thai troops, says that commanders on both sides need to keep talking. Apichat and his men were disarmed and detained by Cambodian soldiers for a day during the fighting but he doesn't want any more problems. "After the attack we must be concerned," he says, sitting alongside a Cambodian officer at a table in the compound of a pagoda that neighbors the temple. "We need to have meetings ... and have no fighting."
In Thailand, everything is about saving face. Anything that is bad to the King or country, the reporter will not allow to report.
Both sides aren't shooting each other with paintballs. Only Thai people would believe that there was no killed on Thais side.
600 Thai armies killed when fighting broke out with Laos in 1989, just a handful of Thais from in side heard about.
Anyone got pictures of dead Thai soldiers?
"13 Thai soldiers were arrested by Cambodian troops, however, they have already been released now."
Is the Cambodia government a joke, they have released those Thai prisoners? Look at you people speaking of don't be too nice to Thai but the prisoners just got released.
The problem is also with current Khmer leader who want to show off against historical aggressor. The incident would not have happened if the government requested the UN for intervention in July. It's not too late to request for their help in order to avoid bloodshed. Either side is Khmer. Only Khmer surins are in frontline. That's reason why Khmer didn't kill those captured soldiers. My concern is that many young Cambodians quited their school to enlist for military service. We need them to build a strong Cambodia if peace can be achieved. Hun Sen should wake up and go for UN or EU's help. You can still go for golfing, digging wells for the poor, and let the UN do the job. Only international police can stop thieves.
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