BANGKOK, Oct 12 (MCOT online news) - Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva will query his Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen on reports of arms training for hard-core anti-government Red Shirt activists on Cambodian soil when both leaders meet at a regional summit later this month, according to acting Thai government spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn.
Speaking Tuesday, Dr Panitan commented shortly after Secretary-General Tawin Pleansri of Thailand's National Security Council (NSC) confirmed information from the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) which said that 11 men arrested in a raid on a resort in the northern province of Chiang Mai and suspected of planning acts of terror claimed that they and 28 others underwent weapons training in Cambodia.
Mr Tawin confirmed that Thai security-related agencies are watching the Red Shirt movement for signs of further weapons training.
The DSI established the facts obtained during its investigation, Mr Tawin said, but they must be further verified before taking any legal action.
"The verification of the report is underway, and some [other] agencies confirmed similar information," said Dr Panitan.
Cambodia dismissed the allegations and accused the Thai authorities as having fabricated the report, Dr Panitan said the Abhisit government is awaiting the result of further investigation, while expressing confidence that the issue will not worsen the relationship between the two neighbouring countries, as their leaders and senior officials have good understanding.
"The prime minister will seek clarification on the case when he attends the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit scheduled to be held in Vietnam at the end of this month," said the government spokesman.
Pol Lt Col Payao Thongsen, chief of DSI investigators probing terrorism charge-related activities, on Monday said that 39 Thai men have been trained for arms use in Cambodia for a mission to assassinate key Thai public figures including the prime minister, according to the confession of 11 men detained in Chiang Mai.
Col Payao said the 11 suspects confessed to being members of the anti-government movement, the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), and that they were 11 among the 39 men who were recruited and taken by Red Shirt leaders to Cambodia without passing legal immigration processes for three-week arms training in a Cambodian army camp.
Cambodian authorities denied accusations immediately after the report of its involvement.
"Why would we need to do this? Cambodia would receive absolutely no benefit from training these people,'' the Associated Press quoted Cambodian government spokesman Khieu Kanharith as saying on Tuesday.
"Cambodia strongly rejects these allegations,'' he said.
Speaking Tuesday, Dr Panitan commented shortly after Secretary-General Tawin Pleansri of Thailand's National Security Council (NSC) confirmed information from the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) which said that 11 men arrested in a raid on a resort in the northern province of Chiang Mai and suspected of planning acts of terror claimed that they and 28 others underwent weapons training in Cambodia.
Mr Tawin confirmed that Thai security-related agencies are watching the Red Shirt movement for signs of further weapons training.
The DSI established the facts obtained during its investigation, Mr Tawin said, but they must be further verified before taking any legal action.
"The verification of the report is underway, and some [other] agencies confirmed similar information," said Dr Panitan.
Cambodia dismissed the allegations and accused the Thai authorities as having fabricated the report, Dr Panitan said the Abhisit government is awaiting the result of further investigation, while expressing confidence that the issue will not worsen the relationship between the two neighbouring countries, as their leaders and senior officials have good understanding.
"The prime minister will seek clarification on the case when he attends the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit scheduled to be held in Vietnam at the end of this month," said the government spokesman.
Pol Lt Col Payao Thongsen, chief of DSI investigators probing terrorism charge-related activities, on Monday said that 39 Thai men have been trained for arms use in Cambodia for a mission to assassinate key Thai public figures including the prime minister, according to the confession of 11 men detained in Chiang Mai.
Col Payao said the 11 suspects confessed to being members of the anti-government movement, the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), and that they were 11 among the 39 men who were recruited and taken by Red Shirt leaders to Cambodia without passing legal immigration processes for three-week arms training in a Cambodian army camp.
Cambodian authorities denied accusations immediately after the report of its involvement.
"Why would we need to do this? Cambodia would receive absolutely no benefit from training these people,'' the Associated Press quoted Cambodian government spokesman Khieu Kanharith as saying on Tuesday.
"Cambodia strongly rejects these allegations,'' he said.
11 comments:
I hope that the allegation and accusation would come true, and then the international community can go after Mr. Sen.
Now, the news is all over the world, and hopefully it will be on the CNN.
We want to nail Mr. Sen, if he is part of the assination plot.
this is jsut small group.. how about a few more hundreds trained in veitnam now?
the 39 in cambodia is one group .. there are more then 600 peoples trained in cambodia by hun sen body guard... secretly.. these 39 are just the decoyed
so thailand will be next .. vietnam will control thailand like vietnam control laos and cambodia
interesting those 11 red Thai accused of training in Cambodia were all arrested in a place. Thailand is tricking Cambodia while in the high times on international and united nations engagement and at the same time Thailand is pondering a new trick to prolong the border conflict. Thai has tricked Hun Sen with a soft diplomatic bowling and just to show the world that both countries are about to reconcile and Cambodia is not going to raise the problem during the high diplomatic probability. Cambodia border dispute with Vulgar Thailand can only be solved through third party / internationally or take to Paris peace accord.
siam should provide some solid evidence to back its words. other wise it only can fools its clowns people.
yeah those 11 Thais had been trained by Thailand itself and taken to a place in northern Thailand far from Cambodian border in a tricky scenario to over shadow that they are of not originally coming from a nearest place they were trained. Thailand are using the idea that those are trained in the south and put in the north and to make it as a natural one. the World will know that Thailand has been always very doggy tricky.
they are part of Thai trained spy that enter Phreah Vihear in 2008 as nun and Buddhist cleric, but thai agent. Cambodia is not crazy enough to train Thai national, It is like to blow sands in the wind.
Remember that last time 2008 Thai planted mines by themself and asked their soldiers to step on,and latter internationally stirred up the problem and accussed Cambodia. Doomday thailand will come
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please keep dream on dude..nothing would scares a strong man like Hun Sen,if you try your ass will be frying and your nuts will be on stake.. FUCK SIAM
If Thai have evidence in that case , the dream will come true @ 1:58 PM.
The world know that Hun Sen's hands have been full of innocent blood since he has been a Prime Minister , this could be true that he has been helping those Thai to kill Abhisit .
WOW !
Cambodians are smart enough to give training to Thais ?
That would be the first time.
siem always tries to get khmer involved in their internal problem! shame on siem!
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