PHNOM PENH, Wednesday 13 October 2010 (AFP) - Cambodia on Wednesday accused Thai authorities of playing "dirty games" and concocting evidence that anti-government "Red Shirts" had received weapons training on its territory.
Thailand's Department of Special Investigation (DSI) said that 11 Red Shirts picked up in the northern province of Chiang Mai this month had confessed to receiving three weeks of training in Siem Reap to assassinate politicians.
"When they came back to Thailand, they were sent to Chiang Mai to prepare for assignment. They told us that they were trained for sabotage and assassination," DSI chief Tharit Pengdit told AFP on Monday.
The 11 men, who are reportedly part of a larger group of 39 militants, will not face any charges but serve as witnesses in efforts to prosecute the people who organised the training, he added.
The government-owned Thai news website MCOT quoted Police Lieutenant Colonel Payao Thongsen as saying that the men were taken by Red Shirt leaders to Cambodia without passing legal immigration processes.
The Cambodian government on Wednesday strongly rejected the allegations.
"Cambodia will neither allow foreigners to set up training camps nor military bases on Cambodian territory," a spokesman for the Council of Ministers said in a statement.
He accused the Thai authorities of engaging in "malicious political manoeuvring" to link the country to Thailand's internal problems.
Cambodia "strongly demands that Thailand DSI put an end to the dirty games of concocting evidences to deflect Thailand public opinion from Thailand's own internal political and social problems," the statement said.
Mass anti-government rallies by the Red Shirts in the heart of Bangkok in April and May left 91 people dead -- mainly civilians -- in clashes between demonstrators and armed soldiers.
The government has blamed the movement for a string of bomb blasts in recent weeks, but the Reds deny any involvement and have accused the authorities of a conspiracy to justify tougher security powers and tarnish their image.
4 comments:
Vietnam govt and Hun Sen are Red Shirts movement supporters. How come Taksin wants to become a Hun Sen adviser and good friend for life ? Why did Red Shirts support Taksin? Taksin will abolish Thai monarchy and so Hun Sen.Sihanouk and Sihamony,or Khmer monarchy mean nothing to Hun Sen.The world know so well about Southeast Asia.Hun Sen,you can not deny it.So Hun Sen,you will go to hell soon.
Why don't these porch monkey Siams show us the evidence of the camp training site in Siem Reap ?
just take those 11 Red Shirts let them show the camp training site that would be the end of the story!
SCREW YOU ALL HUN SEN HATERS..
Thai need to fight with that Khmer soon.....nothing going to changed if no war..Hun Sen controlled Khmer another 40yrs and thais same craps...
To Thai Government , if you have the evidence that Red Shirt people have been trained by CPP in Cambodia ,go ahead file a lawsuit against Hun Sen and CPP for supporting terrorists.
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