Writer: Wassana Nanuam
Published: 9/02/2011
Bangkok Post
About 300 residents of Ban Phum Srol, which was emptied after the cross-border shelling, marched on Wednesday in protest against the People's Alliance for Democracy's plan to visit them on Friday to distribute relief supplies.
Wichit Duangkaew, 46, a village leader, said the PAD was not welcome.
He blamed PAD leaders for causing the clashes between Thai and Cambodian soldiers. The cross-border fire damaged many houses at Phum Srol in Si Sa Ket's Kantharalak district and villagers had been evacuated for safety.
"They are not welcome. We don't want to see them, because they may bring us more trouble," he said.
Mr Wichit said regardless of what the PAD leaders' objective may be - to topple the government or anything else - they should not take the Thai-Cambodian conflict as a pretext for their activities.
"When Cambodian rockets and artillery rounds landed on our village, were PAD leaders with us and did they run ran for lives like we did? They were the cause of trouble," he said.
Si Sa Ket deputy governor Channa Iamsaeng told the protesting villagers that the government had asked PAD leaders not to travel to the border at this time.
PAD leaders on Tuesday decided to abandon their plan to march to some key locations in Bangkok on Friday. They said they would instead deliver relief supplies to the people suffering from border clashes and soldiers on that day.
Published: 9/02/2011
Bangkok Post
About 300 residents of Ban Phum Srol, which was emptied after the cross-border shelling, marched on Wednesday in protest against the People's Alliance for Democracy's plan to visit them on Friday to distribute relief supplies.
Wichit Duangkaew, 46, a village leader, said the PAD was not welcome.
He blamed PAD leaders for causing the clashes between Thai and Cambodian soldiers. The cross-border fire damaged many houses at Phum Srol in Si Sa Ket's Kantharalak district and villagers had been evacuated for safety.
"They are not welcome. We don't want to see them, because they may bring us more trouble," he said.
Mr Wichit said regardless of what the PAD leaders' objective may be - to topple the government or anything else - they should not take the Thai-Cambodian conflict as a pretext for their activities.
"When Cambodian rockets and artillery rounds landed on our village, were PAD leaders with us and did they run ran for lives like we did? They were the cause of trouble," he said.
Si Sa Ket deputy governor Channa Iamsaeng told the protesting villagers that the government had asked PAD leaders not to travel to the border at this time.
PAD leaders on Tuesday decided to abandon their plan to march to some key locations in Bangkok on Friday. They said they would instead deliver relief supplies to the people suffering from border clashes and soldiers on that day.
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