17th May 2008
Radio Free Asia
By Sav Yuth
Translated by Khmerization
Khmer border guards at Choam Sa-Ngam Pass at Anlong Veng district, Oddor Meanchey povince on the hill of the Dangrek Mountain Ranges have claimed that they have verbally clashed with the Thai soldiers in a tense situation on the morning of 16th May when a group of black-clad Thai soldiers from Sisaket province crossed 100 metres deep inside the Cambodian border to attempt to dismantle a Cambodian border post in an unmarked border area.
Deputy chairman of the Khmer-Thai Border Committee, Major Touch Var, said that about 10 heavily-armed black-clad Thai soldiers from Regime 2307 have crossed the border to dismantle the houses of the Cambodian villagers at Chke Oet Village since the night of 16th May and they have pushed in further in an attempt to build a border post in the area on Friday morning, but the Cambodian border guards have confronted them in the tense verbal exchanges which forced the Thai soldiers to retreat.
Major Touch Var said: “The Thais have deployed their forces on the other side of the road. They secretly built a border post hidden from our view inside the bush. Today I was busy in a confrontation with the Thai soldiers since the morning until now.”
A border patrol police officer who want to remain anonymous has said that a group of heavily-armed black-clad Thai soldiers have crossed the border to dismantle the houses of the Cambodian villagers in the border areas where they have lived for a long, long time. He said: “The Thai soldiers have crossed the border and began dismantling the huts of our Cambodian villagers who have lived along the borders for a long, long time.”
However, up until this Friday it is not possible to obtain any comments from the local commander of the Thai forces based in the area or from officials of the Thai embassy in Cambodia.
Chairman of Cambodian Border Committee, Mr. Var Kim Hong, up until the afternoon of Friday said he hasn’t received any reports regarding this issue, but said that he would be very surprised if there is such a problem had occurred. However, he said that the Thai soldiers cannot push in any further to build the border post in the areas, as the Thai side had not agreed to the new Cambodian border post built at the border pass on National Route 67. Mr Var Kim Hong said: “Now we still use the new border post at Choam Sa-Ngam as the Thai side had not agreed to our newly-built border post at Choam Sa-Ngam on National Route 76 which has already been inaugurated by Samdech Hun Sen. But the Thai side had not agreed to our new post, so we refused to open this international border pass on National Route 67 which had already inaugurated by Prime Minister Hun Sen.”
Mr Var Kim Hong added that the borderlines between Cambodia and Thailand at Choam Sa-Ngam, even though the Thai Border Committee has not demarcated the areas, the Mixed Cambodian-Thai Border Committee has sent a mixed technical team to demarcate the areas and the Mixed Cambodian-Thai Border Committee had already agreed to accept the demarcations by the mixed technical team. But the Thai side of the technical team did not accept some other demarcations yet because there are still some jutted out areas that they wanted to leave it to the Mixed Cambodian-Thai Border Committee to return to demarcate that section of the areas a second time.
It must be noted that the border confrontations at Choam Sa-Ngam Pass had occurred numerous times since September 2007 when the black-clad Thai soldiers had stopped the de-mining team from Halo Trust from de-mining in the areas. And in 2006, the black-clad Thai soldiers had installed an aluminium house as a border post in the disputed areas deep inside the Cambodian borderlines. //
Radio Free Asia
By Sav Yuth
Translated by Khmerization
Khmer border guards at Choam Sa-Ngam Pass at Anlong Veng district, Oddor Meanchey povince on the hill of the Dangrek Mountain Ranges have claimed that they have verbally clashed with the Thai soldiers in a tense situation on the morning of 16th May when a group of black-clad Thai soldiers from Sisaket province crossed 100 metres deep inside the Cambodian border to attempt to dismantle a Cambodian border post in an unmarked border area.
Deputy chairman of the Khmer-Thai Border Committee, Major Touch Var, said that about 10 heavily-armed black-clad Thai soldiers from Regime 2307 have crossed the border to dismantle the houses of the Cambodian villagers at Chke Oet Village since the night of 16th May and they have pushed in further in an attempt to build a border post in the area on Friday morning, but the Cambodian border guards have confronted them in the tense verbal exchanges which forced the Thai soldiers to retreat.
Major Touch Var said: “The Thais have deployed their forces on the other side of the road. They secretly built a border post hidden from our view inside the bush. Today I was busy in a confrontation with the Thai soldiers since the morning until now.”
A border patrol police officer who want to remain anonymous has said that a group of heavily-armed black-clad Thai soldiers have crossed the border to dismantle the houses of the Cambodian villagers in the border areas where they have lived for a long, long time. He said: “The Thai soldiers have crossed the border and began dismantling the huts of our Cambodian villagers who have lived along the borders for a long, long time.”
However, up until this Friday it is not possible to obtain any comments from the local commander of the Thai forces based in the area or from officials of the Thai embassy in Cambodia.
Chairman of Cambodian Border Committee, Mr. Var Kim Hong, up until the afternoon of Friday said he hasn’t received any reports regarding this issue, but said that he would be very surprised if there is such a problem had occurred. However, he said that the Thai soldiers cannot push in any further to build the border post in the areas, as the Thai side had not agreed to the new Cambodian border post built at the border pass on National Route 67. Mr Var Kim Hong said: “Now we still use the new border post at Choam Sa-Ngam as the Thai side had not agreed to our newly-built border post at Choam Sa-Ngam on National Route 76 which has already been inaugurated by Samdech Hun Sen. But the Thai side had not agreed to our new post, so we refused to open this international border pass on National Route 67 which had already inaugurated by Prime Minister Hun Sen.”
Mr Var Kim Hong added that the borderlines between Cambodia and Thailand at Choam Sa-Ngam, even though the Thai Border Committee has not demarcated the areas, the Mixed Cambodian-Thai Border Committee has sent a mixed technical team to demarcate the areas and the Mixed Cambodian-Thai Border Committee had already agreed to accept the demarcations by the mixed technical team. But the Thai side of the technical team did not accept some other demarcations yet because there are still some jutted out areas that they wanted to leave it to the Mixed Cambodian-Thai Border Committee to return to demarcate that section of the areas a second time.
It must be noted that the border confrontations at Choam Sa-Ngam Pass had occurred numerous times since September 2007 when the black-clad Thai soldiers had stopped the de-mining team from Halo Trust from de-mining in the areas. And in 2006, the black-clad Thai soldiers had installed an aluminium house as a border post in the disputed areas deep inside the Cambodian borderlines. //
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