Phnom Penh (Cambodia), Aug 22 (AFP) - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen today said he plans to reduce the number of troops stationed around an ancient border temple that has sparked bloody clashes with Thailand.
The neighbouring countries have fought several skirmishes on the disputed frontier around the 11th century Preah Vihear temple in Cambodia since the ruins were granted UN World Heritage status in July 2008.
Hun Sen said Thailand now had just 30 soldiers on the border, meaning that Cambodia would send some troops away from the area and back to their bases in nearby provinces, although he did not give precise figures.
" Having too many troops up there is not really good. We have a plan to change the deployment a little,"Hun Sen said during a trip to an outlying province.
He said the Thai redeployment meant that there was no fighting at the border at present.
"If anything happened, it wouldn't take long to send our troops up again. But I hope there won't be any fighting there,"he added.
The neighbouring countries have fought several skirmishes on the disputed frontier around the 11th century Preah Vihear temple in Cambodia since the ruins were granted UN World Heritage status in July 2008.
Hun Sen said Thailand now had just 30 soldiers on the border, meaning that Cambodia would send some troops away from the area and back to their bases in nearby provinces, although he did not give precise figures.
" Having too many troops up there is not really good. We have a plan to change the deployment a little,"Hun Sen said during a trip to an outlying province.
He said the Thai redeployment meant that there was no fighting at the border at present.
"If anything happened, it wouldn't take long to send our troops up again. But I hope there won't be any fighting there,"he added.
4 comments:
the fucking siem thugs always make trouble for cambodia; siem always put khmer on defensive mode! then they wonder why we hated them! go figure, you ignorant siem thieves. go back to nancho province of china for a change where you came from!
What's the hell going on with Hun Sen? Is it too easy to talk with Thai to pull back all these black dog Siam army from our land?
Or perhap Hun Sen too scare when he watched the show of Thai navy ships battle with also aircraft carriers too, because Hen Sen got afews small boats only but just to robb the fishermen with the fishing equipments but no weapons.
Why not tell the Thai just only two weeks Cambodia will take over Thailand, the same he could do in PP.
Clearly show he's only do what Vietnamese ordered.
Only 30 Thai army left over nearby our temple ? Is it possible, just only 30 army left? Yes those 30 are in and around our buddhis temple, but what about 4.6 kms..?
No, 30 ah Siem soldiers are playing chess in our temple. What wrong with this guy ah Hun Xen are so afraid of ah Siem soldiers.
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