AFP
A Cambodian court charged seven Thais - including a politician - with illegally entering Cambodian territory after they were detained near the countries' disputed border.
"The court has charged them with illegally crossing the border and entering a military area with ill will," said Sok Roeun, deputy prosecutor at Phnom Penh Municipal Court.
The seven, including lawmaker Panich Vikitsreth of the ruling Democrat Party, appeared at a closed-door hearing at the court, a day after being detained.
The incident has rekindled diplomatic tensions between the neighbors over their long-standing border dispute.
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva urged Cambodia to free the Thais.
"Cambodia must release all seven Thais immediately," he said. "Cambodia should not take this case to court, as it will further complicate the issue."
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said the Thais, who also include members of the royalist "Yellow Shirt" movement, would be charged and held in prison pending trial.
A Thai court jailed 84 "Yellow Shirts" for storming a TV station in 2008 in protest at a government allied with former premier Thaksin Shinawatra.
They were handed sentences of between six months and 2 years by Bangkok Criminal Court.
4 comments:
Thai military already agreed that these MP were wrong, so Cambodian gov. can label them as terrorist.
In the US you can use water bording on terrorist, so let the former Khmere Rouge soldier apply this method, maybe you can get a confession out of them !!!
perhaps they were terrorists alright! seeking into cambodia with ill intention and pretend to act like they were lost, or something! yeah right! cambodia don't buy into that lame excuse! what a lawmaker doing there in the first place? he ought to know better than to illegally tresspassing into cambodian property! cambodia is so mindful of siem pad thugs wanted to steal preah vihear, etc, and now this? it won't help with cambodia at all, really!
Lock these mother fuckers(pad thai) in jail just like everyone else. They're scumbags of the earth. Lock them, lock them good. Let other crooks rape them.
charge money from these 7 thai that stay in our jail. charge for food they eat and space they stay for. because we do not have free food and space for them.
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