- Writer: Wassana Nanuam
Bangkok Post
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The Thai army has sent a letter of protest to
Cambodia over the landmine explosion that seriously injured three Thai
rangers inside Thai territory in Surin province on Tuesday.
The 2nd Army's Suranaree Task Force on Thursday submitted
the protest letter to the Cambodian army via the Thai-Cambodian Township
Border Committee (TBC).
“We believe the landmine was recently planted. It was not a leftover mine," army deputy spokesman Winthai Suwaree said.
“This is an automatic procedure for such an incident, to write a protest letter and notify Cambodia,” he said.
An inspection of the area after the explosion revealed another 11
Vietnamese TMN1 landmines, which are commonly used by the Cambodian
military, an army source said. They were spread out in an oval shape,
linked in sets of three. Fortunately only one of them had exploded.
Thailand has accused Cambodia of violating the Ottawa landmine ban
treaty, which both countries signed, following Tuesday’s blast. The
treaty bans signatory states from using and stockpiling landmines.
The three wounded men were part of a 16-member ranger patrol near
Ta Kwai Temple in Phanom Dong Rak district. The explosion blew off one
man's right foot, and the two others sustained shrapnel wounds.
The rangers took the usual route up to a cliff that provides them
with a clear view of Cambodian troops. The Cambodian military did not
want Thai troops to reach that location, so had buried mines around the
area, an army source said on Wednesday.
The unit usually patrolled the route regularly, but had ceased
patrols for a short time. They had resumed patrols on Tuesday.
The source said the landmines seemed to have been planted recently.
The area had already been cleared of all old landmines after the
fighting around Ta Muen Thom and Ta Kwai Hindu temples in early 2011
when the Thai-Cambodian border dispute flared into violence.
Another army souirce said a joint survey in the demilitarised zone
around the Preah Vihear temple to pave the way for the clearing of
landmines has not yet started. The Thai-Cambodian Joint Working Group
(JWG) has to first sign an agreement on landmine clearance.
4 comments:
If Thai was blasted the the mine there, then what?
HAPPY HAPPY ! Lol. Those Thai bitches deserved what coming to them for:
1. Murdered unarmed Khmer civilians
2. Trying to steal our land, even though they had already stole 16 provinces from us centuries ago.
3. For manipulating TRUE history
4. For look down on us Khmers, who are the true land owners of Thailand, Laos, Southern Vietnam.
5. For killing our troops, used ban weapons on us.
6. For stealing Khmer's arts, ancient artifacts
7. For telling foreigners false about us for years.
8. For existence as our wicked, cold hearted, ruthless, manipuatives neighbors, etc., etc.
9. Siam deserved worst than this land mines exploded on them.
7.
they were deserved for this wounded
these rangers was trying to get inside Cambodia territory,
good for them, happy for them
Why Thai protested? It's Cambodia who need to protest about Thai soldiers entering Cambodian territory illegally. Cambodian soldiers cannot enter Thailand to plant the mine because many Cambodians were killed like dogs for entering Thailand to look for work.
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