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Phnom Penh - A Thai parliamentarian and six other Thai nationals were questioned by a Cambodian court Thursday after being arrested along the border for alleged trespassing.
Panich Vikitsreth of the ruling Democrat Party was arrested along with the six other Thais Wednesday in a disputed border area between Thailand's Sa Keow province and Cambodia's Banteay Meanchey province.
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said Thursday that the seven men should be released immediately and dispatched Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya to Phnom Penh to seek their freedom.
Abhisit noted that both countries had previously agreed there should be no soldiers in the disputed area where the Thais had been arrested.
The men visited the border area Wednesday to check on reports that Cambodian soldiers had moved in to villages claimed by Thailand, according to Thai government sources.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said late Wednesday that the case would proceed quickly, adding that he had rebuffed requests from Thai officials to intervene.
'I think Prime Minister Abhisit will understand Cambodian legal procedure, which no one can abuse,' Hun Sen said, adding that the group 'will face legal punishment because Thai lawmakers cannot use their parliamentary immunity in Cambodia.'
A senior Cambodian official said the group was being held for 'trespassing under immigration law.'
'They intruded into Cambodia,' the official said, requesting anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the matter.
The court hearing Thursday was closed to reporters although it was attended by the Thai ambassador to Phnom Penh, Prasas Prasavinitchai.
One of the Thais on trial, Veera Somkwamkit, was previously arrested for illegally entering Cambodia to protest Cambodian soldiers' occupation of Preah Vihear temple, the source of another border dispute between the two countries.
Kasit was scheduled to meet with his counterpart, Foreign Minister Hor Namhong, in the Cambodian capital later Thursday.
Relations between Thailand and Cambodia have been tense for more than two years with sporadic clashes between troops over disputed territory surrounding Preah Vihear, 200 kilometres east of Banteay Meanchey.
The 11th-century Hindu temple, known as Preah Vihear in Cambodia and Phra Viharn in Thailand, belongs to Cambodia under a 1962 ruling by the International Court of Justice, but jurisdiction of 4.6 square kilometres of adjacent land is still in dispute.
The two countries are currently demarcating their border although talks have been stalled pending a repeatedly delayed vote in the Thai parliament to approve the latest round of negotiations.
11 comments:
Hun Sen is a REAL DUMP:
How about thousands of Cambodians enter to Thailand to work everyday ?
Few Thais entered to make some pictures in Cambodia and Cambodian soldiers arrested them !
What a stupid move ?
Hun Sen is looking for trouble again:
Why Hun Sen did not ask Cambodian soldiers to arrest Vietnamese soldiers who entered in Cambodia recently to avoid SRP MP from looking at border posts ?????
Hun sen look at history
since khmer krom youn take over and khmer sorin thailand take over
both of them which one threat khmer
better?
Good good,
Thai soldiers killed alot Khmer, at right now, we fire them instead including vietnamese as well.
Long live Ah hun sen Ah traitor.
Chao sambath
Even arresting Thais illegally entering Cambodia is also a subject of criticism you folks. Do you know only the language of cursing? Although there are double standards in the way the government treats the Thais and the Vietnamese, the arrest is still a good sign of Cambodia being a sovereign state.
Hun Sen shall keep his hands off the arrest of the 7 Siem violators. Leave matter to court and immigration to handle the case.
The Nat.Ass shall lodge a grievance to the Executive branch and international bodies.
RCAF generals shall stay put and shut up from speculating news.
Border troops shall stay alert and stay on guard all the times.
In an open area near O'Chrov town manned by Cambodia poor armed border patrols,Siam may try to use its special force like US's tactical Delta or Seals to retrieve the arrested violators.
The operation is usually occured at night by dropping the force from plane onto nearby quiet fields.
However,it was a good move for Cambodia to move them to Phnom Penh soon enough.Also the JBC shall make note and utilize this to urge Siam for fast action on border demarcation.
Look out for Siam hypocrisiy!
Just shoot these thai government right there see, how they respond to us. we alway nice to them but ah thai never care about any thing they give us a promised they shoot our peope, they do what ever they wnat to . this show that ah thai goverment give ah kwak Hun sen a piece of shit. if ah kwak Hun do not had a good mental brain then ah youn and thai will give us khmer in a shaky situation. 2011 and 21th century please ah joy maray Hun sen and ah joy maray Heng samrin, and Ah Joy maray chea s. all you mother fucker please do somthing to protect the land and the people. and me joy maray
Bunrany also stop to give speech that give cambodia poeple to yol yok or to let go thai because we are same what. you mother fucker Bunrauny you fucking brain is stink every time you open your pussy hole full of dump ignorant idear. stop to give the speech to cambodia people because you brain is full of shit.
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man, this abishit guy always comes up with excuses to abuse khmer law, etc! it goes to show they all are in it together, doing illegal activity, of course! what kind of message are they send to the world's diplomatic community? that violation of other country's law is acceptable? go figure! you support your people only when they do the right thing, you don't support or encourage them to do the illegal thing by backing them up, etc... it's like supporting a paedophile for molesting children just because that paedophile happened to be a citizen of your country, etc! you see my point! it's never right in the first place, so...
This is the dirty stratergy from thai Game, It a Game, give ground to get ground, if we let them free next time thugs PAD will be in Preah Vihear or Siem reap. no one want to have propblem with Thai, and Thai MP they know law, boundery very clearly, but they doese it to gain somethings. Hun sen he is more smarter than those who used to call him AH or idoit, chkear, AH kwark, or Kbout Jeat, or ah YORng YOun, or AH Phleor. any way stope call people AH AH AH. Interlected people they never call their son Ah Ah, so why so many smarts in KI call hun sen Ah, I doubt about thise people being braind wash? He who serve The Khmer rough and Kill million of Khmer those are truthly Kbout Jeat and IDOit.
This was Thai law maker said,"Khmer
soldiers were arrested them when
they were at the Thai rice field".
It was true or untrue.
Abhisit,"both countries had previously agreed there should be no soldiers in the disputed area where the Thai had been arrested".
Did Hun Sen sign the agreement?
If he did it how come, he arrested 7 Thais?
Hun Sen said later,"Cambodian legal procedure,which no one can abuse".
Sorry,Hun Sen,I shouldn't talk back to you because you are a tiger,but I am a cat.
Last couple weeks ago,Vietnam soldiers intruded into Khmer land 100 meters from Khmer-Vietnam border marker.They warned and pushed 16 Khmer law makers chests.
Khmer soldiers didn't go nearby Vietnam troop.
Khmer soldiers should arrest Vietnam soldiers,but they didn't.
Why? Because Vietnam govt is Hun Sen boss.
Hun Sen,You are a Khmer traitor.
This Khmer attitude has never had been
changed since after Khmer empire declined.They hated
Thai,loved Yuon.They
hated Yuon,loved Thai.
Khmer should treat
Thai and Vietnam
friendly,equally.
Khmer will respect
from both of them.
We should live in
peace with three
neighbors.
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