The Nation/Asia News Network
Thai embassy in Cambodia will offer aid to a Thai convicted of planting landmines along Thai-Cambodia border and was sentenced to 20 years in jail, Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya said recently.
The diplomats are looking into what assistance the government is able to provide, Kasit said.
In a hearing last week, Suphap Vong Pakna confessed to planting at least five explosive devices along the Cambodia-Thailand border, claiming Thai soldiers paid him to do so.
Pakna's lawyer says his client received a fair trial. "I think he is getting a fair judgment according to the evidence and his confession, because the court reduced the jail term from 30 to life imprisonment to 20 years in prison based on our terror law, article 75."
The 39-year-old was arrested in February of last year after he allegedly entered Cambodian territory and laid landmines.
A Thai investigation reportedly found Russian-made landmines in the area which they say were recently planted and of a type that Thai soldiers have never used.
Thai authorities said the findings suggested that Cambodia may have been guilty of breaking the 1997 Ottawa Treaty, which bans signatories from using anti-personnel mines.
Cambodia, however, dismissed the accusation, saying any landmines in the area were remnants of the three-decade war.
The group Landmine Monitor says mined border areas between Cambodia and Thailand have the highest concentration of landmines in Cambodia.
The diplomats are looking into what assistance the government is able to provide, Kasit said.
In a hearing last week, Suphap Vong Pakna confessed to planting at least five explosive devices along the Cambodia-Thailand border, claiming Thai soldiers paid him to do so.
Pakna's lawyer says his client received a fair trial. "I think he is getting a fair judgment according to the evidence and his confession, because the court reduced the jail term from 30 to life imprisonment to 20 years in prison based on our terror law, article 75."
The 39-year-old was arrested in February of last year after he allegedly entered Cambodian territory and laid landmines.
A Thai investigation reportedly found Russian-made landmines in the area which they say were recently planted and of a type that Thai soldiers have never used.
Thai authorities said the findings suggested that Cambodia may have been guilty of breaking the 1997 Ottawa Treaty, which bans signatories from using anti-personnel mines.
Cambodia, however, dismissed the accusation, saying any landmines in the area were remnants of the three-decade war.
The group Landmine Monitor says mined border areas between Cambodia and Thailand have the highest concentration of landmines in Cambodia.
4 comments:
Thailand 9th Most Dangerous Country in The World
White sandy beaches, lots of sun, palm trees, spicy food, and polite and smiling people is maybe what you normally link with Thailand. But according to the Terrorism Risk Index made by Maplecroft Thailand is also a country in extreme risk of terror attacks reports the Danish newspaper Politiken.
--War is peace
Thailand not only have 3S (sun, sea , sand ) and they addition S which is the most famous is Sex. If you want sex go to Thailand. Thailand the land of Sex
Thailand is the land full of sinners with all diseased of Aids, HIV, Gays, Lesbians...Thailand is doom!!
Do not worry Thais, Cambodian prisons are made for Khmers only, how big crime you have commited, that doesn't count, we will release all of you, soon or late.
If Khmer does something wrong, even to help Khmers or protect Khmers, he must be jailed.
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