Cambodian armored vehicles stand by in Banteay Ampil of Oddar Meanchey province on April 25, 2011.Monday, April 25, 2011
Global Security Newswire
Cambodia late last week claimed Thailand was using chemical weapons in clashes between the two nations' military forces, the Associated Press reported. Thailand quickly rejected the allegation (see GSN, July 26, 2005).
The Cambodian Defense Ministry said in a prepared statement that 75 mm and 105 mm munitions "loaded with poisonous gas" had been fired from Thailand into Cambodia. It did not provide additional detail.
The second in command of Cambodia's artillery branch, Col. Suos Sothea, also told AP that the Thai military launched artillery shells filled with "poison smoke" that did not cause any deaths but did cause weakness in the arms and legs of a number of troops.
Cambodia also alleged that Thailand was using cluster munitions and reconnaissance aircraft in the conflict.
"I'd like to categorically deny that the Thai military has used any kind of aircraft," Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya told reporters in Bangkok. "I'd like to reiterate that the accusations from Cambodia hold no truth at all. What they said about us using poisonous gas was not true either."
The head of Thailand's 2nd Army Region, Col. Tawatchai Samutsakorn, also dismissed claims that his nation's military was using cluster or chemical weapons.
Both Cambodia and Thailand are member states to the Chemical Weapons Convention, which prohibits development, production, stockpiling and use of arms carrying materials such as mustard blister agent or the nerve agents VX and sarin.
The two nations since 2008 have skirmished on a number of occasions over disputed territory along their shared boundary.
The latest burst of fighting began on Friday and mostly involved artillery fire. As of Saturday, four Thai soldiers had been killed and 17 injured, according to Tawatchai. Six Cambodian troops were said killed.
Thousands of civilians in both nations had been relocated from the fighting zone (Sopheng Cheang, Associated Press/Yahoo!News, April 23).
7 comments:
We should collect all the evidences and present the evidences to war crimes tribunal don't let them get away they preach the UN convention :
-using Chemical weapon
-using cluster bombs
They can above the the law in Thailand but not on the international stage and serve the warning to any Thai leader in the future don't play dirty trick and the dirty trick will come and haunt them Hun Sen should lodge the complain to UNSC about Thai using chemical weapon vigorously and force them to answer to our complain they can explain all they want but if the evidences are overwhelming they just become bad crook .
I'm not Thai but I tell you what, it wouldn't work.
Why?
The UN and UNSC is under the US, Thai weapons are US's weapons.
The US have been using the same weapons on Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya etc.
If the US condemns Thai then it has to condemn itself.
There is no way the US is going to to do it, it's turning blind eye. Remember, the Thai armies are trained by the US too recently.
This is why the Thai can fight for many days and still want to fight more.
12:51PM
According to you US are the culprit here set bad example if Cambodia use the same weapon US cry really load then. so what the point for US as the world policeman wasting the time with US .
Keep repeating the news, sooner or later the world will know. The use of poisonous gas or cluster bombs is a war crime. Thailand had committed war crimes here.
US got no jurisdiction on the War crime tribunal US itself hardly cover their ass their soldiers commit too many war crimes .
Hun Sen should Pursue vigorously put Thai in the answer box in Hague .
1:04 PM
"if Cambodia use the same weapon US"
You wish...
Cambodia do not use weapons from the US full stop
AMERICA AMERICA STOP MENTION THIS WORD, THEY AREE THAI MASTERS. SCREW AMERICA, IF AMERICA SO GREAT TELL ITS LAPDOG TO STOP ATTACKING US.
perthkhmerguy
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