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Bangkok/Phnom Penh - The Thai military said Friday that Cambodian forces had fired artillery rounds into Thailand near Preah Vihear temple on the joint border, while the Cambodian side blamed Thai troops.
Thai radio reports said an estimated 20 shells landed on Thailand's side of the border in Kantalarak district in Si Sa Ket province, 350 kilometres east of Bangkok.
'We can confirm that there has been a clash, but we are still checking the details,' said army spokesman Colonel Sansern Keowkhamnerd.
The Thai army was reportedly bulldozing a road in the border area, which has been the subject of numerous spats over the past two and a half years.
A spokesman for the Cambodian government blamed fighting on Thai troops.
Phay Siphan claimed Thai soldiers had crossed 500 metres into Cambodian territory and opened fire despite the efforts of Cambodian troops to avoid violence.
He said fighting had begun at 3 pm (0800 GMT) and was ongoing more than an hour later.
Phay Siphan said fighting was underway near Keo Sikha Kirisvara temple, which Thailand claims stands on disputed territory.
There was no word on casualties.
Bangkok recently insisted that Cambodia remove a flag flying over the temple, a demand that Cambodia's Foreign Minister Hor Namhong rejected earlier on Friday after a meeting with his Thai counterpart.
The clashes come hours after Hor Namhong and Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya wrapped up a meeting stating that a recent build-up of troops would not lead to violence.
Thai and Cambodian forces have faced off along the mountain range around the 11th-century Preah Vihear temple since July 2008, when UNESCO declared the edifice a World Heritage Site despite Thai objections.
Although the World Court in 1962 ruled that the temple belonged to Cambodia, Thailand claims a 4.6-square-kilometre plot of land adjacent to the temple, and has blocked Cambodian's efforts to turn the site into a tourism attraction until the border dispute is settled.
14 comments:
I hated Siamese and Youn but the same time I hated ah Kwack too because he's slaved to ah Youn. Actually I don't wanted Cambodian to go to wars with Siamses. If we gonna make a wars I preffer we make a wars with ah Youn Vietcong. They're the mortals enemies of Khmer for century. Siamese, Loas and Cambodian we should'nt fight each other causes we have everythings is similared likes brother and sister why we fight each others not like ah Youn they're different from us why can we joint three country to fight with ah Youn Vietcong is better.
Use A-10 to wipe out Hun Sen's position BM-40 and SAM Site.
use A1-M1 and A1-M2 Tanks to crush Hun Sen's republican guards.
Thailand please teach Ah strong legs Hun Sen a lesson !!!
Pok ah pussies above are ah krop cheat having no dicks. Go fuck yourselves, you pussy ass bitch. You are the type that hide your fucking pussy and do nothing for the country when shit hits the fan. You'll lick Thai, Viet, or anyone's asshole as long as they let u live. Fuck you both.
Fucking Thai must know that the Pagoda is in the Khmer country.
Fail bad Siem
To the Thai pilots, don’t drop bombs on innocent Cambodian people.
Please aim your targets at Hun Sen’s houses in Takhmau and Phnom Penh.
The Cambodian people will thank you for doing that.
War is the game of Leader.
Died is truth for citizen.
No one can win.
To me who ever support foreigner to invade our motherland are traitors
The Thai are itching for a war since they never have a real one over a century ago with the French, and that war made them sign the treaty of 1907.
So it is about time to let them feel what a real war will be like.
Cambodia might not win the war, but she will inflict a lot of pain and suffering to the Thai people.
For a century Thailand has lived in peace and prosperity, while Cambodia went through many wars and sufferings. Hey, together we can bring our countries back to the Stone Age, and then we can live happily ever after, because there would be nothing left to fight for.
who would want to support ah-power greedy corruption?anybody support this!you're support ah-youn-ah-youn is bad luck for us cambodian,thia,lao's
all idiot, you are not khmer at all, you happy when the war brooke out , you KI people and evil Sam rainsy are khmer traitors.
Now it make me believed that Sam rainsy team are the same team as Kmher rough, All Sam rainsy Newspapers since 1998 are very disloyalty to Khmer, Kill Rainsy this Idiot are thai spy
8:49 when is Sam Rainsy became Thai spy or may be it is better Hun Sen's Yuon slave for life.
Who love you if you dun love your self?
Who love khmer if khmer hate each other?Well, only Thai, Veitnam or Laos like khmer land(invade).
POLPOT said he loved khmer, he wanted to protect khmer from invade of Vietnam, he wanted Kampuchea Krom back, BUT WHY HE KILL PEOPLE? And how how about you?
Keep your khmer as your head, keep other counties' people as your arms, legs, fingers. So your khmer will be great again.
From Buth Angkor.
if pol pot said he love cambodia, why he allowed killings of khmer people like that? it does't make sense at all, really! the same with sam rainsy, if he loves cambodia, why he inflamed, divided and biased against cambodia? makes so sense! maybe he is a fake khmer, a fake leader, etc! one has to wonder out loud, really!
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