Writer: BANGKOK POST AND AFP
Published: 16/09/2009
Bangkok Post
The Foreign Ministry denies Thai soldiers shot and burned alive a Cambodian teenager for cutting down trees illegally on the border.
Ministry spokeswoman Vimon Kidchob yesterday said the ministry had checked the report with the Border Affairs Department under the Supreme Command and found it baseless.
Thai soldiers fired bullets into the sky near the border in Surin on Friday after finding about eight Cambodian teenagers were sneaking into Thai territory to cut down trees, Miss Vimon said.
But the Cambodian foreign ministry claimed in a letter sent to the Thai embassy in Phnom Penh yesterday Yon Rith, 16, was one of two Cambodian teenagers shot and wounded by Thai soldiers after they and others felled trees illegally. on the frontier.
''One of them named Mao Kleung managed to escape the scene, while the other injured boy named Yon Rith ... was arrested and burned alive by the Thai forces,'' the letter said.
The Cambodian foreign ministry called the alleged incident an ''inhuman act'' and urged Thai authorities to investigate.
But Miss Vimon said the report was a misunderstanding. ''Thai soldiers did not use force in the incident,'' she said.
She said a Thai diplomat was summoned to the Cambodian foreign ministry yesterday to clarify the issue.
The accusation comes just days before a planned rally at the border near Preah Vihear by the People's Alliance for Democracy.
On Saturday, PAD members plan to voice their opposition to new buildings being constructed in the disputed area, claiming there are plans for Thailand to abandon the overlapping area. They say those two issues could lead to Cambodia taking firm control of the 4.6-square-kilometre zone which has not been unsettled.
Supreme Administrative Court president Ackaratorn Chularat said if the Thai government turned a blind eye to the settlement, it could eventually be seen as accepting Cambodian possession on the land.
Published: 16/09/2009
Bangkok Post
The Foreign Ministry denies Thai soldiers shot and burned alive a Cambodian teenager for cutting down trees illegally on the border.
Ministry spokeswoman Vimon Kidchob yesterday said the ministry had checked the report with the Border Affairs Department under the Supreme Command and found it baseless.
Thai soldiers fired bullets into the sky near the border in Surin on Friday after finding about eight Cambodian teenagers were sneaking into Thai territory to cut down trees, Miss Vimon said.
But the Cambodian foreign ministry claimed in a letter sent to the Thai embassy in Phnom Penh yesterday Yon Rith, 16, was one of two Cambodian teenagers shot and wounded by Thai soldiers after they and others felled trees illegally. on the frontier.
''One of them named Mao Kleung managed to escape the scene, while the other injured boy named Yon Rith ... was arrested and burned alive by the Thai forces,'' the letter said.
The Cambodian foreign ministry called the alleged incident an ''inhuman act'' and urged Thai authorities to investigate.
But Miss Vimon said the report was a misunderstanding. ''Thai soldiers did not use force in the incident,'' she said.
She said a Thai diplomat was summoned to the Cambodian foreign ministry yesterday to clarify the issue.
The accusation comes just days before a planned rally at the border near Preah Vihear by the People's Alliance for Democracy.
On Saturday, PAD members plan to voice their opposition to new buildings being constructed in the disputed area, claiming there are plans for Thailand to abandon the overlapping area. They say those two issues could lead to Cambodia taking firm control of the 4.6-square-kilometre zone which has not been unsettled.
Supreme Administrative Court president Ackaratorn Chularat said if the Thai government turned a blind eye to the settlement, it could eventually be seen as accepting Cambodian possession on the land.
4 comments:
Of course, a thief will never admit to stealing unless he was caught red-handed. Now there are undeniable evidence, and the Thais still deny it. from testimony from his fellow loggers and from his father, i'm convinced that he has been burned alive.
Poor kid, how he suffered before he died. burning is the most cruelest form of execution.
Quite simply, there is a lack of substantive evidence of any murder except for the anecdotal evidence of a few people. Did anyone see the teenager being burned alive? If so, how were they able to get back to Cambodia without being arrested by the soldiers they were fleeing?
Before casting blame or jumping to conclusions, proper police work needs to be carried out to verify the stories. The father is no crime scene investigator so we should be careful before beleiving everything we are told.
I seem to remember the destruction of a number of business and a certain nation's embassy a few years ago because 'someone said that they heard on TV someone in Thailand say something about Angkor Wat'. That incident made Cambodians appear to the rest of the region and world as a bunch of barbaric peasants railing at the castle gates. And certainly gave the proof to many of what they had suspected: that the unthinking violence of the KR was still alive and well in Cambodia. An embarrassment and loss of face for us all, so let's not let it happen again. Show the world our civilization.
8:18 pm, you also might be thinking to yourself that other deaths involved Khmer being murdered by Thai in Thailand are also not yet proven, correct? Any death of Khmer committed by Thai are all made up stories, correct? The kid probably burned himself to death. His father arrival at the scene to see his burnt to crisp son was just a made up story by Khmer media to make Thai soldiers seem like a bunch of barbarics baboons out to revenge of their bitterness for losing Preah Vihear to Cambodia, correct? Any claim or accusation made by Cambodia toward Thailand will always be seen as baseless by Thailand, because Thailand is a perfect little creature that always do the right things and treats its neighbors with love and respect, correct?
The incident occured where Thai businesses burnt to the ground because of the so-called "khmer overeacting" were already a done deal, damages to the business were already compensated. Let's look at the other way around, how about Thailand compensate for the damage done by an overreacting Thai that murdered Khmer.
8:18 PM, are you suggesting that the poor kid burned himself alive? Then you have to ask yourself who shot and wounded his fellow loggers, Mao Kleung.
Mao Kleung said he heard Yon Rith's scream and saw the flame afterward. There are photos of his burned copse with his hands tied to his back.
Here is Mao Kleung's testimony:http://khmerization.blogspot.com/2009/09/thai-soldiers-burned-cambodian-logger.html
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