Written by Sam Rith and Sebastian Strangio
The Phnom Penh Post
Thailand has accused the Kingdom of violating an international mine ban at a meeting on the Ottawa Convention, Cambodian delegates say
INTERNATIONAL delegates to an annual conference in Geneva on the global land mine ban have ignored Thai accusations that the Cambodian military has planted fresh mines during recent tensions along the countries' disputed border, Cambodian officials said Thursday.
"The Thais firstly complained that Cambodia isn't following the convention banning land mines. Secondly, they accused Cambodia of planting new mines in the border area," said Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan.
According to the Cambodian delegation in Geneva, Phay Siphan said, the Thai complaints were ignored by the other meeting participants.
"The other members of the convention said nothing. They did not listen to them," he told the Post.
"They have understood we are people who want only to make peace. The Thais keep misleading the world."
Chan Rotha, deputy secretary general of the Cambodian Mine Action Authority, said, "The donor countries will not pay attention to the Thais' accusations because they already know through their representatives in Phnom Penh that we have not laid any new mines."
'A grave threat'
At least one Thai soldier has been killed and two others seriously wounded in a spate of land mine incidents that have occurred during the five-month military standoff on the border.
Following a blast that wounded two Thai troops on October 6, Thai Foreign Ministry officials accused Cambodia of laying new anti-personnel mines on Thai territory, calling it "a grave threat for the international community" and a violation of the 1997 mine ban treaty.
But Cambodian officials insist that the Thais stepped on mines left over from Cambodia's civil war in the 1980s and 1990s.
Furthermore, Phay Siphan said that since unexploded mines were only on the Cambodian side of the border, the blasts proved that the Thais had crossed into Cambodian territory.
INTERNATIONAL delegates to an annual conference in Geneva on the global land mine ban have ignored Thai accusations that the Cambodian military has planted fresh mines during recent tensions along the countries' disputed border, Cambodian officials said Thursday.
"The Thais firstly complained that Cambodia isn't following the convention banning land mines. Secondly, they accused Cambodia of planting new mines in the border area," said Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan.
According to the Cambodian delegation in Geneva, Phay Siphan said, the Thai complaints were ignored by the other meeting participants.
"The other members of the convention said nothing. They did not listen to them," he told the Post.
"They have understood we are people who want only to make peace. The Thais keep misleading the world."
Chan Rotha, deputy secretary general of the Cambodian Mine Action Authority, said, "The donor countries will not pay attention to the Thais' accusations because they already know through their representatives in Phnom Penh that we have not laid any new mines."
'A grave threat'
At least one Thai soldier has been killed and two others seriously wounded in a spate of land mine incidents that have occurred during the five-month military standoff on the border.
Following a blast that wounded two Thai troops on October 6, Thai Foreign Ministry officials accused Cambodia of laying new anti-personnel mines on Thai territory, calling it "a grave threat for the international community" and a violation of the 1997 mine ban treaty.
But Cambodian officials insist that the Thais stepped on mines left over from Cambodia's civil war in the 1980s and 1990s.
Furthermore, Phay Siphan said that since unexploded mines were only on the Cambodian side of the border, the blasts proved that the Thais had crossed into Cambodian territory.
7 comments:
They are the ones planting and blowing bombs in their own country.
Who would believe such liars.
landmind in cambodia planned in cambodia are made in china. Thai u should blame china , not cambodia.
Thais have never won any international claims. International communities know what Thais have been doing, and creating this crisis.
Is there any other tricks Siam has left? May be Hun Sen is behind the PAD in BangCock?
Siam is always a looser.
Wish what this gov't guy told us is true. Last time Hor Nam Hong also said the border talk with Thailand was very successful.
yes, this is the right thing to do to the thai trouble-makers! god bless cambodia.
Khmer should send some inteligents to BangCOCK to help them bombing each other in the mean of peacefull to Ah Siam.
There were a lot of Khmer who are living in BangCOCK that is very easy to make the PAD and the Thai govt. fighting, killing each other.
And the muslim in the south of Thai should take this golden time to blow up the BangCOCK city too.
Bye,bye Ah dick-head dog Siam.
When you Siam all death and live in hell do not forget to build the temples for your own okay, so you Siam never claim Khmer temples again.
BLOW UP BANGCOCK NOW IS THE BEST TIME.
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