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| A Cambodian soldier walks past armored vehicles during the National Assembly members' visit to troops in a military base near the Preah Vhear temple in Preah Vihear province, some 500 kilometers northwest of Phnom Penh, February 9, 2011. |
Bangkok Post
The Cambodian government has caught its
opponents and the media by surprise, taking sudden delivery of a
shipment of 100 tanks and 40 armoured personnel carriers which it had
not previously announced it was buying.
The Phnom Penh Post reported on Friday that Cambodian
Minister of Defence General Tea Banh confirmed only on Tuesday that his
government had purchased the vehicles. He did not give details of their
origin or cost.
Tea Banh said the tanks and armoured personnel carriers (APCs) were needed to upgrade the Cambodian military’s capability.
He could not be reached by the daily for further comment regarding the arms deal.
Koy Kuong, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also refused
to talk about the shipment, saying that he had no knowledge of it.
Approximately 100 tanks and 40 APCS had arrived at the Sihanoukville port on Tuesday, according to a source.
Opposition Sam Rainsy Party spokesman Yim Sovann said the were also surprised by the purchase, given its size.
Sovann called for all future military acquisitions to be transparent
and made through the parliament. He saw no reason why the government had
been keeping the deal a secret.
3 comments:
We live in a real dangerous zone. We therefore don't have to decalre all of the capacity and the quantity of our military forces.
Hun Sen should use the newly found weapons to crush the oppositions-terrorists should they try to instigate troulbe.
You sound like Khmer trying cause problems among your compatriots khmers,you didn't sound like Yiekcong at all.Don't paint yourself as a black sheep of our society [Khmer] If you're not really Yiekcong,but if you're Yiekcong then you're asking for trouble or perhaps fishes's food in Maekong River,I am sure fishes would loves to eats your [Yuon] flesh as its delicacy once in a while...
:-|Don't be fish's foods:-|
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