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Friday 10 June 2011

Thai authority arrested a Cambodian and Vietnamese for spying on Thai military bases


Three arrested near Thai-Cambodian border for spying on military bases

BANGKOK, June 10 [MCOT]-- Three men -- a Thai, a Vietnamese and a Cambodian -- were arrested by the Thai military for spying on this country’s military bases and bunkers for the local population in the border province of Si Sa Ket.

Police in Si Sa Ket's Kantharalak district and a unit of Special Forces Rangers based in the province arrested the three men, identified as Suchart Muhammad, 32, a Thai national; Ung Kimtai, 43, a Cambodian national, and Nguyen Tengyang, 37, a Vietnamese national.

The three men were detained at Phum Srol village at 5pm on Tuesday while they were driving to find Thai military base locations and shelters for villagers in the province.

Their pickup truck with a Bangkok license plate was seized.

Pol Col Sompoj Khomprang, superintendent of Kantharalak district police station, said the arrest followed a military intelligence report that the three were driving around the province gathering information on military bases and bunkers built for local residents along the Thai-Cambodian border.

The authorities also found a Cambodian military map and a Thai map with different scales and four mobile phones, he said.

There were ten digit numbers written down on the map of Thailand which were only understand among the three, an apparent code.

Urine tests administered by the authorities found that Mr Suchart and Mr Ung Kimtai tested positive for methamphetamines. Both confessed to having used the drug earlier.

The three suspects were charged with espionage threatening Thailand’s national security, while Mr Suchart, as the driver, and Mr Ung Kimtai both faced additional charges of drug abuse.

After the arrest, an official of Cambodian Consulate-General in Sa Kaeo province visited the trio for ten minutes to seek options to help them. (MCOT online news)
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Thailand arrests three "border spies"
Channel News Asia
Posted: 10 June 2011

BANGKOK: Thailand has arrested three men on suspicion of spying near its disputed border with Cambodia, accusing its neighbour Friday of "violating" its territory.

One Thai, one Cambodian and a Vietnamese man were picked up in Thailand's northeastern Si Sa Ket province on Tuesday evening carrying maps with military facilities marked on them, police said.

Thailand and Cambodia are locked in a bitter dispute over their shared border that has seen 28 people killed in two outbreaks of fierce fighting this year, and the row has since moved to the United Nations' highest court.

Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said the alleged spying activities were unacceptable.

"I am confident this information benefits us because foreign countries can see that the Cambodian government is violating Thai territory," Abhisit told reporters while campaigning in Bangkok for next month's election.

The suspects have denied they were spying in the area, the police officer who made the arrest told AFP.

Police said they confiscated both Thai and Cambodian maps and mobile phones.

The three are being held in prison and the Vietnamese and Cambodian nationals have requested consular assistance, police added.

Cambodia last month launched a legal bid at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague seeking to force Thailand to pull troops from a disputed strip of land near the 900-year-old Preah Vihear temple.

The court ruled in 1962 that the temple itself belonged to Cambodia but both Phnom Penh and Bangkok claim ownership of a 4.6-square-kilometre (1.8-square-mile) patch of nearby territory.

Cambodia in April asked the ICJ to clarify its initial ruling.

-AFP/ac

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

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Article 51 – The Right to Self-Defence

According to Charter VII, article 51 of the United Nations Charter, countries can engage into military action only in self-defence, including collective self-defence:

51. Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security. Measures taken by Members in the exercise of this right of self-defence shall be immediately reported to the Security Council and shall not in any way affect the authority and responsibility of the Security Council under the present Charter to take at any time such action as it deems necessary in order to maintain or restore international peace and security.

Article 51 of the UN Charter clearly recognizes “the inherent right of Cambodia self-defence”. That is, the language of Article 51 does not identify or stipulate the kind of aggressor or aggressors against whom this right of self-defence can be exercised … and certainly does not limit the right to self-defence to attacks by States!

“Thailand should realized that ‘No territorial acquisition resulting from the threat or use of force shall be recognized as legal.The territory of a State shall not be the object of military occupation resulting from the use of force in contravention of the provisions of the Charter”.

WesternObserver said...

It is Thai's tactic to spin this kind of news portraying Cambodia as evil. I remember last time Thai accused Cambodia flying a stealth unmanned aircraft in Thai airspace. Sorry Thailand, from western observers we don't buy this of news.

Anonymous said...

I do believed these three guys are Thai national...This is a new games of politic that Abhishit vejjajiva's admin...play! Abhishit vejjajiva want to bring back those two Thai in cambodian jail, this way Abhishit vejjajiva will gain more vote from...They must paid these three guys good$$$$$! Just pretending you are khmers...ok!