By Hang Savyouth
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Khloy Ek
Click here to read the original article in Khmer
An official for the Cambodian ministry of Foreign Affairs indicated that the ministry sent the Cambodian vice-consul in Thailand to meet with a Cambodian citizen who was arrested by the Thai authority in Sisaket province.
Following the meeting, it was found that the man was a simple Cambodian citizen who, sometimes, visits Thailand to look for work only. He was not involved with secret spying for Cambodia as he was accused off by the Thai government.
In the afternoon of Saturday 11 June, Koy Kuong, spokesman for the ministry of Foreign Affairs, rejected all accusations [made by Thailand] and said that the Cambodian ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that it categorically rejected [the accusations] because it believe that this is a dishonest invention made by the Thai authority and the Thai PM in order to confuse the public opinion by accusing Cambodia and by lying about the truth.
Koy Kuong added: “The government of Cambodia announced that the invention above is only a subterfuge to foment aggression on Cambodia in the future, and Cambodia regrets that the PM of a neighboring country resorts to adopt lying as his foreign political strategy. Cambodia clearly confirmed that it does not need to do anything to what the Thai PM lied as spying.”
The immediate reaction by the Cambodian government took place after Thailand claimed that it arrested 3 men who acted as spies for Cambodia. The three men were arrested in Srol village, located in front of Preah Vihear temple, in the afternoon of 07 June.
On 10 June, the Bangkok Post quoted Thai Colonel Sompoj Khomprang, the police chief in Kantharalak district, Sisaket province, as saying that the Thai authority arrested 32-year-old Suchart Muhamad, a Thai citizen, 43-year-old Ung Kimtai, a Cambodian man, and 37-year-old Nguyen Tengyang, a Vietnamese citizen.
The Thai police indicated that the three were riding a pickup truck and they had maps on them. The three were approaching Thai army bases and large trenches built by the Thai government for use by Thai citizens to protect themselves during clashes. The three also were marking up these locations so they are suspected of involvement with spying for Cambodia.
Phay Siphan, mouthpiece of the Cambodian Council of Ministers, rejected this accusation, saying that, regarding spying activities, Cambodia never sent its agents to spy on Thailand: “The baseless accusation is only an accusation in order to plan for an attack on Cambodia only. The Cambodian individual who was accused of spying, has a proper passport. Thailand accused him of spying, and for this spying he was riding a car to enter inhabited areas, he had a passport and he even had maps.”
On 20 June, the Cambodian ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a written statement categorically rejecting the [accusations made by the] Thai PM and the Thai authority, saying that this is an invention to lie to the public opinion in order to create confusion on Cambodia.
2 comments:
Well...Abishit is fighting for his political career and he will stop at nothing to get back at Cambodian to even the score before he disappears from the political scene! AH Abishit is getting desperate by the hour before he ran away from Thailand!
Abishit can't put innocence Khmer people in jail without sufficient evidence!
If Thai govt is a liar,all Thai
officials are liars too.To make
sure the bottom officials are
clear,clean,and faithful to the
top officials.
It is shameful and doubtful
for the high Thai authority.
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