Info about Thai soldiers laying barbed wires rejected by Khmer general

Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Socheata

The commander in chief of the Preah Vihear temple area had rejected the information broadcasted by Radio Free Asia on Sunday, indicating that Thai solider had installed barbed wires inside Cambodian territories. General Srey Doek said that the RFA broadcast about Thai soldiers installing barbed wires 40-meter inside Cambodian territories is not true. Srey Doek, commander in chief of the 3rd intervention army unit, told The Phnom Penh Post on Monday that, the barbed wires installed by Thai soldiers near Sa’em village, Kantuot commune, Choam Ksan district, Preah Vihear province, are located on Thai territories. The general said that Thai soldiers can do whatever they want in their territories. “We will react when they do something on our territories,” the general said. On Monday, yesterday, General Yim Pim, commander of the army unit 8, said that a forest fire took place near Preah Vihear temple and it caused several landmines explosion.

Thai soldiers lay barbed wires on Khmer territories

22nd Feb, 2009
By Sary Rath
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Khmerization

A group of Thai soldiers have on Friday 20th February laid barbed wires in an area the Khmer soldiers claimed belong to Cambodia.

The area that the Khmer soldiers accused Thai soldiers of allegedly laying the barbed wires is in Ta Thav district, located 6 kilometres east of Preah Vihear temple.

Mr. Sav Yuth, a correspondence for Radio Free Asia reports: "I have received a report from the Preah Vihear area where the Khmer soldiers claimed that a group of Thai soldiers based at Ta Thav Pass have entered (Cambodian territory) to set up camp next to a Cambodian border post for the last few days and they have laid barbed wires 40 metres deep inside the Khmer territory. Yesterday, the Cambodian soldiers tried to prevent them from laying the barbed wires and asked the Thai soldiers to leave the area, but the Thai soldiers still maintain their barbed wires that they have laid 40 metres deep inside Khmer territory and they have not withdrawn from the area yet."