BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand accused Cambodia on Sunday of firing the first shots in a border incident in which three soldiers were wounded, saying it was "a brutal and aggressive act" that had violated friendly relations.
In a letter to the Cambodian government, Thailand's foreign ministry demanded Phnom Penh ensure there is no repeat of the incident near the disputed 900-year-old Preah Vihear temple.
"The shooting by the Cambodian troops against the unarmed Thai paramilitary rangers is regarded as a brutal and aggressive act and is contrary to the spirit of friendly relations between Cambodia and Thailand," the letter said.
Cambodia issued a similar protest on Saturday, accusing Thailand of "intentional armed provocation" and warning it could lead to conflict.
However, Cambodian Information Minister Khieu Kanharith told Reuters that Phnom Penh had agreed to an investigation into Friday's exchange of fire and Thailand's foreign ministry said the situation at the border was calm.
Two Thai soldiers and one Cambodian soldier were injured in what was the first clash in the disputed territory since the two countries agreed to pull back troops in August after a tense month-long stand-off.
Each country has accused the other of encroaching on its territory.
Foreign ministers of the often fractious southeast Asian neighbors agreed in July to find a peaceful end to the diplomatic and military spat, which centers on 1.8 square miles (4.6 sq km) of scrub near the temple.
Both sides have claimed Preah Vihear for decades. The International Court of Justice awarded it to Cambodia in 1962 and the ruling has rankled in Thailand ever since.
The row earlier this year was sparked by protesters seeking to overthrow the Thai government, who attacked Bangkok's backing of Cambodia's bid to list Preah Vihear as a United Nations World Heritage site.
Political elements on both sides fueled the conflict for their own ends, but tensions eased considerably after Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's victory in a general election in late July in which the temple, and nationalism, featured heavily.
(Reporting by Orathai Sriring; Editing by Ed Cropley and Alex Richardson)
In a letter to the Cambodian government, Thailand's foreign ministry demanded Phnom Penh ensure there is no repeat of the incident near the disputed 900-year-old Preah Vihear temple.
"The shooting by the Cambodian troops against the unarmed Thai paramilitary rangers is regarded as a brutal and aggressive act and is contrary to the spirit of friendly relations between Cambodia and Thailand," the letter said.
Cambodia issued a similar protest on Saturday, accusing Thailand of "intentional armed provocation" and warning it could lead to conflict.
However, Cambodian Information Minister Khieu Kanharith told Reuters that Phnom Penh had agreed to an investigation into Friday's exchange of fire and Thailand's foreign ministry said the situation at the border was calm.
Two Thai soldiers and one Cambodian soldier were injured in what was the first clash in the disputed territory since the two countries agreed to pull back troops in August after a tense month-long stand-off.
Each country has accused the other of encroaching on its territory.
Foreign ministers of the often fractious southeast Asian neighbors agreed in July to find a peaceful end to the diplomatic and military spat, which centers on 1.8 square miles (4.6 sq km) of scrub near the temple.
Both sides have claimed Preah Vihear for decades. The International Court of Justice awarded it to Cambodia in 1962 and the ruling has rankled in Thailand ever since.
The row earlier this year was sparked by protesters seeking to overthrow the Thai government, who attacked Bangkok's backing of Cambodia's bid to list Preah Vihear as a United Nations World Heritage site.
Political elements on both sides fueled the conflict for their own ends, but tensions eased considerably after Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's victory in a general election in late July in which the temple, and nationalism, featured heavily.
(Reporting by Orathai Sriring; Editing by Ed Cropley and Alex Richardson)
32 comments:
Thailand is the worst liar as they said "unarmed Thai military".
Stupid liar
I agree, they are trying to shift the blame and play two-face politics. The Thai are fucking liars, the boarder patrols are armed on both sides.
fucken heel this thais nation is shameless......they don't even feel shame for lying....what an arso thais.
When Sihanouk let Vietcong enter in Cambodia 1970,I saw vietcong killed khmer rouges.When I was in the camp of refugee in Khao I dang,I saw Thai sodiers shoot M-79 in the Camp,some khmers were killed.
come on ah sen.....can you still see or what.....ah tea banh isn't doing a good job here....i'm sick of the fucken siam lies......stop the fucken talk let the siam know you mean business....cut the shit...pull out of ASEAN fucken useless.
This is the work of Ah Pleu-Oversea Spies to instigate problem and causing destruction to Cambodia so that they can take all of our oil to their host countries. Don't be fool by them. Find them and charge them with treason and send them directly to the mass grave.
The poor but honest Khmer-Mon, how can we do, to manipulate the Western World.
Chan
WHO KILLED KHMERS FIRST!
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=gWK5eZzL8aQ&feature=related
SIAM = Steal, Insult, Aggressive, & Manipulate. Siamese CANNOT be trusted because they teach their children the wrong historical facts.
Don't listen to Ah Idiots-Oversea. They are just trying to get us to join their "Oil for Weapons" program. They are retarded. They live in a roach infested government housing, and they don't have any vision beyond that.
roach infested is a step above your rat infested.
in any case, back to the subject at hand. Who patrols a country's border unarmed? Idiots who want to be shot by drug smugglers?
Thais are not only liars, but they come up with most absurd explanations. How the world stand to accept this reason is beyond belief!
"The shooting by the Cambodian troops against the unarmed Thai paramilitary rangers is regarded as a brutal and aggressive act and is contrary to the spirit of friendly relations between Cambodia and Thailand," the letter said.
HOW CAN ANYONE TRY TO RESOLVE A DISPUTE WITH THE STUPID LIARS LIKE THE SIAM LEADERS??
YOU HAVE TO BE TRUTHFUL WHEN YOU WANT TO SOLVE A PROBLEM.
WHO DO YOU THINK WILL BELIEVE YOU WHEN YOU SAY YOUR INVASIVE TROOPS WALK IN KHMER SOIL WITHOUT LOADED M16 OR SEVENTY NINE GRENADE LAUNCHERS?? YOU STUPID LIARS.
YOUR TROOPS ARE NOW STATIONED 1000 METERS INSIDE THE KHMER SOIL, ACCORDING TO THE MAPS THE KHMER COMMANDERS HAD SHOWN YOU. IF YOU CAN'T READ THE MAPS YET THEN GO BACK TO SCHOOL FOR MORE ACCURATE KNOWLEDGE, OR BE PREPARED TO BE BEHEADED. YOU DAMNED VICIOUS LIARS.
God will punish Pouk A Chor Siams for the way they act to grab khmer land. A greedy species, no shame, how dare you bring the illegal map to claim khmer land. May be you want khmers in Surin and Sisaket to break away from you to join khmer kandal. Pouk A greedy siams! LIARS.
This is how you talking about how a liar Thai is.
They fire the shot first and now they twisted it around.
Khmer PP,
DO anything to harm Thai is a good deed.
Vear neung choss pret norouk teang rous, a chor siams. Put tumneay teay tha bangkok kchat kchay, it is time. Look how they get mad/fool to their neighbors, without shame. Pouk a mouk krass siams! Gods bless cambodia!
Khmer blood
WE all kmer should support the MUSLIM fighter againt SIAMES ... This fucking nation SIAMES are no shame to be LIAR .. so IT mean their time tobe eliminate are come..SUPPORT the muslim fighters to BEhead more AH JKEA SIAM and stop those stupit GAY siames from become more GAY for GOD sake...!!!!
Thai speaks with a wishy -washy words,they talk with smiling faces but hiding knives behind their back to stab us. Tea Banh ,Hun Sen are bunch of craps the low and slow function on the brain leaders this kind of government Cambodian don't need that and they are not deserve to stay there,if the good opportunities is happening we khmer have to kill these to traitors first then show the Thai invaders some muscle ,that khmer people got train very hard to sacrifice times ,life and everything for Cambodia.
Do not listen to Hun Sen and Tea Banh there a lot of investment with Thai,why HUN is pussy.
In short, we Khmer have been so unfortunate that we have such despecably thoughtless and unpatriotic leaders all along.
Well! If the Thai leaders kept talking about their righteousness and why not use the global positioning system to pinpoint where the incident took place!
Does it take in Khmer soil or Thai soil according the French map of 1904!
Eve a five years child can lie better than the Thai leaders!
Please be patient and watch what Hun Xen is going to do.
The French got no business creating any map in this region.
But if ah Hun Sen and Ah tea banh wake up from the beds.But how dare the two traitors there will conflict with personal interest,because they have a lot investment wit Thai.
All of you are just as ignorant and stupid as your fathers and mothers. That's all I have to say.
Look like even Khmers themself (inside and outside) have problem.
Look at this http://tinyurl.com/4kpyat and put your personal differences away!
Down with Thai aggression!
We don't care who's fire first but we have to Dak Ah Siem klass tov.
******WARNING*****
To ALL Khmer, we have a Youn imposter's (7:30) on our forum. His only intent purposes is to divide us Khmer apart. Please disregard all future correspondence, if anyone came across this individual.
Khmer-Lur, Khmer-Krom, Khmer-Kondal and Khmer-Grao are ALL KHMER! Bottom line!!
it's beginning to sound like a movie called "he said, she said". another clown show by thailand who forgot that they were the one that violated the international law!
My Khmer people, why is our not so leaders still eating Thais food? this is just some game so that all you can end up as slave. Stop the fighting with ordinary people and throw some punch at hun xen or bun rany.
11:58 PM,
First of all - Fuck you! what is that fuck about and who the fuck are you? Just show your gut and let having a debate, your mother fucker. Don't your mother ever tell you that Khmer is now on the rise to confront the mother f*ken neighbours who are keen to have our land.
Just for your information, in early 18th century, our population was not even half a million. We keep fighting non stop for our beloved nation. The f*ken neighbours branded as uncivilised and savage, because we have been living in jungle for so long due to the neighbouring invasion. A Thai historian keep alerting that "... never trust Khmers at all times, they never give up to fight us for recapturing their lands lost to Siamese, whenever we are weak".
It is too good to be true, and that is why we are still on the world map up to date, because we has been in unity and the invaders could/can not screw us up. We sincerely appreciate best priceless efforts and struggle made by our patriotic and nationalist parents against the invaders. So they were not stupid, but fighting for their next generation, as you now can see those who can fight they fight; those who can give they give; those who can swear they just keep swearing ... as can be seen in this forum. If these bother you, the best for you to do is just getting fuck out of here. That's the end of stroy.
Cambodia so lair , if war begin Cambodia be defeat in 5minus
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