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Tuesday 18 August 2009

Thai commander sent a letter of apology for airspace violations

Source: Deum Ampil newspaper
Reported in English by Khmerization

Thai commander of the Chantaburi-Trat Airbase has written a letter of apology to Cambodian commander for repeated airspace violations over Pailin and Samlaut areas in early an mid August.

The Cambodian military claimed that on 3rd and 12th August, Thai jet fighters had flown at low altitude and at high speed over Pailin and Ratanak Mondul, more than 3o km deep inside Cambodian territories, which caused panic among shoppers at Pailin Market.

Mr. Koy Kuong, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told Deum Ampil on the afternoon of 17th that the Thai commander had sent a letter of apology. He said: "The Thai Command based at Chantaburi province had sent a letter on 14th August 2009 to the Cambodian military commander to apologise for the violations of Cambodian airspace three times recently by Thai planes."

Mr. Koy Kuong added: "In the letter the Thai side said that the violations happened accidentally as a result of bad weather and the planes' compasses did not work, that's why the planes accidentally entered Cambodian airspace. In the letter, the Thai said that they respect Cambodian sovereignty and will do their utmost not to repeat the violations again."

Mr. Koy Kuong said Cambodian has already warned Thailand not to repeat these sorts of violations again.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

If i used my hand to fight you and later i said " Apology ". What do you think ?

We shouldn't accept this kind of apology.

The driver of Thai Jetfighter or commender in chief should responsible infront of legal law.

Anonymous said...

compasses did not work? what kind of fucking planes did they fly? an old WW2 planes? a bunch of bullshit to me. if it's one of those american built fighter jets, the F-16, like they love to talk so much shit about,i'll be damned if the compasses broke, it all digital, there no way in hell those compasses broke.

cambodia need to start squeezing some cash to purchase the Stinger, or the Russian, the French, or hell even the Chinese version of SAM(surface-to-air-missiles) to shoot those motherfucking planes that thailand love to accidentally flown into Cambodia. if and when Cambodia shot it down, just say,"Oooops, sorry, bro, your planes accidentally flew into my airspace so i fucking shot it down.
i read an old news, that some years ago thailand accidentally flow their vietnam era Bell 212 helicopter into burma. burmese military smoke the fucker out of the sky, and thailand did react. the fucker is bark, but doesn't bite.

Anonymous said...

The Thai excuses don't make sense. Violations took place three times and 30km deep inside Khmer territories, so it could not be an accident.

And the compasses did not work? Very childish excuse. Even a baby won't believe such lies. Ihis is an intimidation and a bully.

Now the Thai warship is sailing along the Cambodian coast. Is it an accident or a deliberate intimidation?

Anonymous said...

As a military man in the U.S Army, I am 100% sure that these violations represents an intentional mistakes. These mistakes are spy to located Khmer troops movement, define battle space, and battle plan in case of war. American F-16 is a quality plane, that is not easily malfunction. If it is a malfunction, they would not fly it. So in the conclusion, it is a trick by Thai to spy on Khmer troops.

Shoot them down next time...see if they make the same mistake again

Anonymous said...

To me, I think thath Sieam planes have flight into Cambodia airspace becaucse of the technical error, it was not absolutely possible and it was not the first time Sieam did. The Gov't of Cambodia should take action on this activities such as to fire that plane and write the letter to applogize Sieam, and tell it that sorry to cofuse to shot your plane, this the fair thing we can say.

Anonymous said...

Sieam King, Sieam Govt't, and Sieam soldiers must stop its incursion on Cambida, and Cambodia should not be crazy to accept Sieam appology.

Anonymous said...

I WANT TO SEE THAT CAMBODIA GOV'T IS A STRONG GOV'T.