BANGKOK, Aug 22 (MCOT online news) - Negotiations for the release of three Thais recently arrested in Cambodia will be held Monday with Cambodian authorities, said Rapee Phongbuphakij, governor of the northeastern border province of Surin.
The three men, charged by Cambodia with spying, were arrested eight days ago by Cambodian police while they were gathering forest products along the border. All of them are natives of Surin.
Senior Thai officials have said the trio are not spies and that their arrest has nothing to do with the ongoing border dispute between the two nations.
Mr Rapee said he had talked by telephone to the three men now jailed in Siem Reap, and they had asked for the Thai government's assistance in gaining their release. They complained of hardships while in prison, the governor said, noting that he had ordered officials who would negotiate with the Cambodian officials to also give clothing and medicine to the detainees.
Meanwhile, Democrat Party spokesman, Buranat Samutarak, asked Thai residents of the border areas to refrain from movements along the Thai-Cambodian border, for the situation in which the two countries are locked remain tense.
He asked them to be confident that the Thai government was trying its best to help the detainees. But if another invasion was made, despite under the Thai sovereignty, it would be hard to guarantee the safety of Thais and the situation could become worse.
Spokesman of the opposition Puea Thai Party, Prompong Nopparit, said the party had sent a team to follow the trio case. He said the ongoing Thai-Cambodian problem will make the release of the three men more difficult, and criticised Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya for doing nothing regarding the issue.
The three men, charged by Cambodia with spying, were arrested eight days ago by Cambodian police while they were gathering forest products along the border. All of them are natives of Surin.
Senior Thai officials have said the trio are not spies and that their arrest has nothing to do with the ongoing border dispute between the two nations.
Mr Rapee said he had talked by telephone to the three men now jailed in Siem Reap, and they had asked for the Thai government's assistance in gaining their release. They complained of hardships while in prison, the governor said, noting that he had ordered officials who would negotiate with the Cambodian officials to also give clothing and medicine to the detainees.
Meanwhile, Democrat Party spokesman, Buranat Samutarak, asked Thai residents of the border areas to refrain from movements along the Thai-Cambodian border, for the situation in which the two countries are locked remain tense.
He asked them to be confident that the Thai government was trying its best to help the detainees. But if another invasion was made, despite under the Thai sovereignty, it would be hard to guarantee the safety of Thais and the situation could become worse.
Spokesman of the opposition Puea Thai Party, Prompong Nopparit, said the party had sent a team to follow the trio case. He said the ongoing Thai-Cambodian problem will make the release of the three men more difficult, and criticised Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya for doing nothing regarding the issue.
9 comments:
Kill them, Burn them alive before sent their bodies back to Siem Government.
Revenge! Revenge! Revenge!
សងសឹក! សងសឹក! សងសឹក!
Can our gvt,exchange for Khmer that have been lock up in Siem for those three Siem guys. That be a good plain dealers if our gvt can do that. Don't just let them go free for nothing I heard alots of poor Khmer have been lock up in Siem too.
Take good care and release them asap ,they are khmer Surin.They may be used later on to spy for us.
Why don't Khmer surin doing like the Muslim that lives in South get rises up and beat and shoot all the fucking thieves Siem people and annex to us.
It is great opportunity for cambodia to get back cambodia people whom captured by siem. One siem=10 Khmer.
i'm skeptical that maybe it's a set by siem gov't to lure cambodia into bilateral talks with them. i think bilateral talks about other benefits it ok, except with preah vihear temple, it should not be bilateral talk there, period, because first of all, the temple belongs to cambodia, not thailand. so, cambodia be careful how siem want to manipulate the preah vihear temple so they can co-own it. bilateral talks with them should not be about the temple, but perhaps about the economy, the education, the people to people, diplomacy, etc; but most definitely not about our preah vihear temple. the temple is out of the question in any talk, really! of course, bilateral talks about many other things is fine. leave temple out of it, ok!
i want to fuck Siem king's wife .
3:01 AM
Asking Khmer Surin to rise up against bangkok gov. is like asking Cambodians to defy Hun Sen gov. with bare hands.
Once again, it's all a game between Thailand and Vietnam. And like usual, Cambodia is just the worthless pawn stuck in the middle and everyone in Cambodia is too stupid to realize it. Thailand is playing and testing Cambodia while Vietnam is asserting more and more control over Cambodia through the CPP by influencing Cambodia's foreign relation.
Vietnam wants to knock off Thailand as mainland southeast Asia's richest and most prosperous nation. Vietnam wants to surpass Thailand in tourism and foreign investments by diverting it into Vietnam. In doing so, it uses Cambodia as a proxy to help tarnish Thailand's international image by causing controversy and political instability in Thailand and both nationalistic rise in Thailand and Cambodia.
Vietnam is not called Little China for nothing.
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