October 18, 2008
By Pongphon Sarnsamak
The Nation
Army Ranger Boonrit Khantee, one of four soldiers hospitalised following Wednesday's skirmish with Cambodian troops, is now in a coma, Public Health Minster Chalerm Yoobamrung said yesterday.
The other three are still undergoing treatment in hospital. Boonrit suffered a severe shrapnel injury to the left side of his head.
He remained unconscious after undergoing an operation on Wednesday and is now on a respirator in the intensive care unit.
"He is unresponsive and has cerebral oedema," Chalerm said. The public health minister has assigned two specialists - Dr Monchai Viwattanasittipong, an accident expert, and Dr Prawatwong Wongsrikawe, a neurosurgeon - to look after Boonrit.
The three other hospitalised soldiers are undergoing treatment in Kantharalak district hospital in Si Sa Ket for minor injuries. They are SgtMajor Nattaphon, who suffered a bad sprain; SgtMajor Preecha Pokphan, who has a shrapnel wound on his right thumb; and Ranger Krissanarak Chandang, who suffered shrapnel to his right knee.
Doctors removed the shrapnel from Preecha and Krissanarak, and they will be released from hospital tomorrow, said Chalerm.
Wednesday's clash over a disputed area on the Cambodian border injured 10 Thai soldiers.
The other three are still undergoing treatment in hospital. Boonrit suffered a severe shrapnel injury to the left side of his head.
He remained unconscious after undergoing an operation on Wednesday and is now on a respirator in the intensive care unit.
"He is unresponsive and has cerebral oedema," Chalerm said. The public health minister has assigned two specialists - Dr Monchai Viwattanasittipong, an accident expert, and Dr Prawatwong Wongsrikawe, a neurosurgeon - to look after Boonrit.
The three other hospitalised soldiers are undergoing treatment in Kantharalak district hospital in Si Sa Ket for minor injuries. They are SgtMajor Nattaphon, who suffered a bad sprain; SgtMajor Preecha Pokphan, who has a shrapnel wound on his right thumb; and Ranger Krissanarak Chandang, who suffered shrapnel to his right knee.
Doctors removed the shrapnel from Preecha and Krissanarak, and they will be released from hospital tomorrow, said Chalerm.
Wednesday's clash over a disputed area on the Cambodian border injured 10 Thai soldiers.
33 comments:
As for humankind, I would like to share the sad from his family.
It's victim of greedy policy of Thai leader.
a Khmer
I dont understand why the cpp gov has to justify (press conference) the Siamese accusation about mine laying along khmer-thai border in which have injured siamses soldiers. Why should Khmer justified to these bandits who has violated their home (territory) and cause violence and died in Khmer home? Why ?
These bandits Siamese has violated Khmer territory/home, let these bandits died and we should condemned these bandits instead of excuse these bandits. Why pouk ah cpp klach pouk ah chaor sieams klang mless?
These are the unarm army rangers the Thai are talking about and now they are unarm forever.
And I may add, if Cambodia lays the new mine like the bandits Siamese accused, what’s wrong ? It is Cambodia rights to do that to defend its territory against the bandits and murderers siamese and yuons.
my heart also sunk. Sadness goes to these soldiers. Our two fallen heroes on Khmer side die protecting our nation, and these Thai soldiers injured because used as political pawn to the elitist PAD. These casualties shouldn't be to begin with, PAD Thailand need to reconsider your actions. You send people to die on your behalf, people who you do not even believe should have rights to vote because they are stupid and poor.
You should be ashame of yourself.
Knowing that our Khmer surin brothers also compromise some portion of the Thai army side, I hope no more conflict arise because this is forcing our Khmer people to fight each other.
PAD leader and protest instigator should be imprison and hanged for causing this calamity.
kill all the thai dogs
What ill pathetic behaviors these bandits Siamese!! They are being injured and killed for their banditic acts yet want to make a lawsuit against Cambodia for laying new mine to injure its bandits soldiers.
So pathetic pouk ah bandits Siamese os nis
I wish and pray that all Thai soldiers die tomorrow. They started this, and now they should all die, esp. the commanders and politicians who order them to station there.
I have no remorse or sympathy with any of these bastards. Die all you can, I won't wink.
4:23
I'm with u on this. Both side loses as a result of war. No matter which side the soldiers are on, they have families like everyone eles.
Thais people please get your government in order so we can live in peace. You need to find the PAD leader's and arrest them.
Not long time ago. When cambodian kill cambodian. More than 100,000 cambodian refugee runaway in to our territory remember what we do
we help and takecare of them or not.
....All of this story becuase hunsen need to promote himselft to be a great PM. He do for him selft not for khmer. Please understand.
The problem is also with current Khmer leader who want to show off against historical aggressor. The incident would not have happened if the government requested the UN for intervention in July. It's not too late to request for heir help in order to avoid bloodshed. Either side is Khmer. Only Khmer surins are in frontline. That's reason why Khmer didn't kill those captured soldiers. My concern is that many young Cambodians quited their school to enlist for military service. We need to them to build a strong Cambodia if peace can be achieved. Hun Sen should wake up and go for UN or EU's help. You can still go for golfing, digging wells for the poor, and let the UN do the job.
To the 5:52PM
Not long time ago in 1979 when 10 of thousands off Cambodian refugees fled to the Khmer Thai border, Your Thai government send buses to collect us and send to landmines in Phnom Dangrek Preah Vihear force with gun point to go down the cliff, a lot of us died there. Was that how you help?
See this Link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNVhugd_Fp4&eurl=http://ki-media.blogspot.com/
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=8yEhkzAWgHs
For Security of our country and his people, the first it must kill
Siem's dog Ah Méchô Akkaté Moha Séna Yuon Phnêk Taul Daï Chô Khbal Yuon khluon khmer, Traitor of Khmer's Nation.
It seem we worry to much about siam control a few km filled with land mine and our PM and us here make no noise about ar yourn control the whole country. God bless Cambodia... Please help us to open our mind and eyes.
What is important to remind is, in the past Khmer have miserably lose many wars and battles against thais and yuons because of their emotions and displaced kindness toward these hypocrites and murderers . Khmer being killed, their land and richness pilled by the Siamese and yuons because Khmer refused to kill these bandits for their belief in human kindness and religion. Khmer refused to kill Siamese soldiers because they considered as their brothers and sisters. Republic Khmers refuse to kill Khmer rouge because they considered Khmer rouge as Khmer. Khmer refuge to kill yuons because they think yuons are human and also a human race and at the end Khmer being killed by these heartless and barbaric murderers. At its side, the yuons and the Siamese are just the unconscious and natural murders, they cheat, they kill without a tiny sign of human consideration in heart toward innocent who they consider as Khmer. These bandits always, look down on poor people, cruelty kill people and refugee who run ways from die or persecution. Yuons and the Siamese are same, so barbaric who heart absent all kind of guilt or regret, simple savage animals
Khmer should think twice about these barbaric Siamese and yuons whether they should use law or human and kindness with these heartless bandits and murderers or not. The question is should we have same human consideration toward these races or not? Does it is seizable or understandable by these murderers or not? Or it is totally different to it by nature and culture.
Ah Ho and Ah Mao must pay back is better than borrow china without stoping!
When Sihanouk let Vietcong enter in cambodia 1970 I saw Vietcong destroyed the bridges and killed my friends.At 76-77 ,we saw Samamith Sihanouk and the others in BB and Siem Reap.....!
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We know what your PM try to do.
What in the darkside of Khamer politics.
It same as thailand politics.
All goverment officer are do for themselft coruption and rich .
Who realy do for poor peple ?
He push our army to the frontline
to fight for promote him for let the world know he is the great leader.
My khmer friend's all of you are smart why the easy story like this you not understand .
And also pravihear temple are belong to khmer not our temple no reson to fight for it.
only some cracy stupid thai democracy party leader and pad want it not all thai want.
For me my home have many temple
greater than pravihear.
I no need your ugly temple.
To mother f-cker 9:32pm
You are smelling like my shit, you are real Khmer and pretending Siam , you bustard just want play trick with all the reader, why you mother f-cker mentioned our temple as UGLY TEMPLE ? I knew you are real Khmer why you said this word to our temple. Even if you are real Siam your mother or your great grand mother was a Khmer king slave just for f-ck only.
Don't pretending you are a smart shit.
Only Sihanouk and Hunsen who have money to give your heroes,you see it since 13 century.Only for 1 year!
Please love our Buddha as our MAÎTRE SUPREME;but not TEPVONG.
he he he Why you said like that ?
OK. pravihear is a greater temple .
but I said I never want it .
That only dirty trick of thai politics between soldier and pad side to discradit the thai goverment side.
And also dirty trick between hunsen
and your king srihanu side.
We fight for what ? For them or for our country ?
We must love each other dear all thai,khmer,laos we respect our BUDDHA our MAÎTRE SUPRÊME.
Communisms ,they have no religion as in Cambodia since 1970 until nowday.
INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE!
death to the siem dogs. no more excuses.
KI Media, your calculation is WRONG. Do the math. Only 7 Siams are injured. I don't know how u came up with 10.
WHERE IS THE BANGKOK POST AND THE NATION ? Why you are hiding the truth? Do you think you can hide the casaulties of the Thai forces from the international journal?
What kind of this nation when your Thai army got killed more than 10 soldiers and injured more than 20 your army leaders are hiding this, why not let their family know so they can come and take their belove home and do as buddhism ceramony?
Because you Siam are loosing face, you Siam always think you are a super strong, stronger than any of your next nations, but when the real war come your stupid army does not know how to fight, just ran for their life, like at the front line infront of Khmer Prah Vihear temple, ashameeee...
Now you Thai got some lessons, our Khmer soldiers wich most of them are former KR army will kill all of your shit Siames soldiers.
You Siam should know KR army are too tough, full of skill to kill invader, plus all Khmer army from all party together will be the best, and too easy to kill you Siam invader.
So where those BangKOCK post and the Nation? Where are you? Where is the photos of your dead and injured army? Tell the world the truth! come on!
Soon the news will come out you Siam will never hide this forever.
Sorry to tell the good Siam whoes lost their love one during your Thai government did stupid thing to Cambodia and did not tell you the truth about their family got killed.
http://webboard.news.sanook.com/forum/?topic=2543170
www.websitesrcg.com/ border/camps/Khao-I-Dang.html
No it not yet a war just only small clash.
We are not vietkong or american or your father france all of them don't care to kill your khamer peple .
If we do real war what do you think what will be happen to your country many home and city will be destroy by thai military realpower.
Anyway may be war is good for your goverment politics but sure it not good for thai and khamer peple .
Sorry I only thai young girl this is all I can said and I can do for our friendship .
My email and hi5 is varunrint@hotmail.com
To 10:00pm
It's only the Thai internal problems, but most of THAI people were study the wrong history, that's why this nationalism came up at this moment at the same time when Thai BangKOCK fighting each others, it was nothing to do with Khmer leader, because the stupid Siam always wants to take over Khmer land, so both party of your shit Siam are playing game to robb Khmer territory and blame on internal problem.
Any nations in the world know this Khmer-Siam border isues, when the UN peace keeper came to Cambodia for the 1993 free election they were watching you Siam moved the border post far inside Cambodia, that's another reason that Thai does not want to take this border case to the UN or ICJ when Khmer asked to.
So all this Prah Vihear temple isue is started from your both shit Siam gov. and shit PAD.
I know you do not want to take Prah Vihear temple because it just only in your SIAM's dream, we Khmer are thanks you very much that you Siam like our temple very much, but you must know who built this and who you Siam came from?
Use your smart shit education body.
You Siam just got good lessons from our army on 15th Oct. and if you want more just cross the line and bring your first aid kids with you too. This time Khmer army will blow your army a part and give to your dog that can smell the land mine to smell your blood.
Come and cross the line again if you think you Siam are too strong, this time Khmer army got order not to say any word with you dog Siam again.
You Siam army are too young and must enjoy with your Kartery (lady-boy).
GO HOME BOY. This land is not yours.
Oh! I think your army commanders didn't get enough foods becuase your SIAM leader dogs smell the mine that was layed during our war in 1979-1997, feed them your blood so they can smell the correct mine.
Oh man Siam are so stupid those mines was burried more than 10 years ago and the world knew, SIAM thought that international are so stupid like them?
Blow up and kill more Siam army.
My personal feeling is that in order to avoid another coup by top military officiers, the current Thai government needs to make the border clash happen at any cost. So, the Thai public would focus more on border clash than the coup itself. It will bring a bad image to the coup planners if they wish to go while border stand off still continues. It would make thing complicated for coup planners to mobilize the troops for the coup. The public would punish them. That's why Thai PM needs to get closer to the local Thai commanders. PM won't prefer clash, but just a stand off and sometimes fighting because soldiers are human and their patiece is limited. It's a political game in Thai politics. The question is do Khmers want to play the game with them or do we really need to think about the territory? The latter is to have international mediation, but Thai government won't choose it at least until the threat from coup planners is over.
Whether Khmer government wants to play the game with them or not, lives of Khmer soldiers need to be protected and treated fairly.
If a large scale conflict happens, Thais would be united, and the military will take the government completely. Somchai never wants this to happen either. It's a tough situation there. If coup fails, there is a high risk for the coup planners and those behind them.
In my opinion, Khmers should not involve with their game for the best interest of the nation. Thais ALWAYS get advantages while we were in troubles. Why not we? We should focus more on economic development and leave the works to the international communities because we have law and peace accord. Just like Singapore, the more we have strong economics and humand resources, no one would touch us. Hun Sen should really think about this.
SE Asia Has experienced so much loss and heartache you all are such beautiful people remember the past work together,in peace show the world it is a fantastic travel destination make your lives great again.I'll be back shortly so if you don't want trouble from a Scotsman ,sort it out !!You all deserve a decent happy life
Adam Scott
There is a bastard siam pretends to be a girl siam to give the comment on this chatting.
Hey guy pretends to be siam girl, don't be stupid, your father American is stupid to create war everywhere in the world and boasting as a good democracy country with Peace. Shit, if your soldiers want again, come and see what will happend to yours. I used to be in Thailand and found military in training by force and knew nothing besides how to sleep and wake up on time and use the wea[pon onto the unarmed persons.
Siam never had any pinch of land previously, Siam escaped from the far country and invaded with stole the land from the SE Asia country to be theirs and asking America to support on its invading and stealing land from other countries as the expert comes to draw a fake map which the siam's intellectuals cannot do it.
Don't be stupid and don't dream to have more land from Cambodia, think about your dream on Burma, Laos, and Malaysia.....
Khmer at Khao i dang
End your dog's-like passion, the Siem, or your future will turn gloomy and savagery. Care about your internal fire and make more friends, or you'll end up a rubish nation with several split controlling regions as you make a cheap neighbour and process a stupid leading strategy.
From a descendant of Thai's grandfather.
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