BANGKOK, June 10 (MCOT online news) - Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya on Friday said his ministry informed the Cambodian and Vietnamese embassies in Bangkok about the arrest of their nationals for alleged spying, affirming that legal action would be taken under Thai law.
Three men -- one Thai, a Vietnamese and a Cambodian -- were arrested by the Thai military authorities for alleged spying on this country’s military bases and bunkers for the local population in the border province of Si Sa Ket.
Mr Kasit said he instructed the Department of East Asian Affairs to continue to inform both embassies on details of the arrest and gave assurances that the case would proceed in accord with Thai law without any political intervention.
However, he would coordinate with police and the Office of the Attorney-General for the facts related to the case.
Police in Si Sa Ket's Kantharalak district and a unit of Special Forces Rangers based in the province arrested the three men, identified as Suchart Muhammad, 32, a Thai national; Ung Kimtai, 43, a Cambodian national, and Nguyen Tengyang, 37, a Vietnamese national.
The three men were detained at Phum Srol village at 5pm on Tuesday as they appeared to be driving systematically to locate Thai military base and bomb shelters for villagers in the province.
Regarding the possibility of exchanging those detained with two Thai activists now being jailed in a Cambodian prison on espionage charges, the Thai foreign minister said it remains to be seen how the judicial procedures runs its course.
A Cambodian court on Feb 1 ruled that Veera Somkwamkid, Thai Patriots Network coordinator, and his secretary Ratree Pipattanapaiboon were guilty of espionage, illegal entry, and trespassing in a military zone. Mr Veera was sentenced to an eight-year jail term and a 1.8 million riel (US$450) fine, while Ms Ratree was handed a six-year jail term and a 1.2 million riel (US$300) fine.
Mr Kasit said that in according to Thai law, a prisoner must serve at least two thirds of his or her jail term before an exchange of prisoners could be possible.
Thailand was ready to cooperate with Cambodia over the matter as the government did in the past, he said.
7 comments:
All Cambodian must take extra-care when you are already in Thailand or you intend to go to Thailand.
If not necessary DO NOT go to Thailand at all. You will be a target of SPY. The crazy dog(Thai govn't) will do anything to harm Cambodian.
DO NOT GO TO THAILAND!!!!!!!
Also, Cambodian workers who are now living and working for Thai, all of you must be careful, the acts of accusing from Thai authority is altimately high threathening to your being. Come home safe!!!!, Beside that, the Viet movement toward West, Thai, is strongly recommended. Viet uses Cambodia for Viet's base of operation. Khmer, stand up, do not allow Viet and Hun to do what they want. Khmer will be in the middle if Thai and Viet are collided. After all, both Thai and Viet are splitting West of Mekong belongs to Thai and East of Mekong belongs to Viet.
Joy Yak's opinion
Don't be a fool by the fabrication of Siem on the very important issue at the world court to useless thing like spy.
These three guys were frame and use as an object by Abhisit vejjajiva's admin...inorder to gain vote for coming up election!!
Thai arrested cambodian, then accussed, and now planned for exchange while the suspects are supposed to be innocent before trial in the court. This is the set-up story by Thai authority. Thailand tries all means to exchanges something with Cambodia government including ICJ withdrawal, and prisoner exchange. Sorry poor Cambodia who was trapped in this situation.
"The trio ...while the Thai and Cambodian suspects also faced additional charges of drug abuse, as the Thai authorities found both of them were tested positive for methamphetamines."
=This is funny! The Siem military thugs can't even distinguish between a drug dealer and a spy!ahahahhahah
Sam is the Vietnamese and she need to go back to Vietnam.
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