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Second army chief protests at landmines

Published: 8 Mar 2013 at 00.00
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The Suranaree Taskforce has protested to Cambodia for allegedly planting new landmines along the shared border at Surin.

Mine clearance officials use detectors to search for buried landmines. (File Photo by Rarintorn Phetcharoen)

The move came after three Thai rangers stepped on landmines along the border on Tuesday.

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pheakdey
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Discussion 31 : 09 Mar 2013 at 11.3431
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if the Cambodia and Thais military didn't do it then it must be the drug trafficker, the wood logger or militia group who planted those mines there. or someone regular civilian has a military background who intended to stir up the heat along the border. both side should just restrain their state of mind. this is just my investigated theory base on both side being rejected.
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Discussion 30 : 09 Mar 2013 at 11.2830
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"Thailand and Cambodia have signed the Ottawa Treaty, which bans signatories from using and stockpiling landmines. Cambodia was both a severe victim of mining, and one of the leading nations pushing for the treaty."

Very sad when a country has such a short memory...
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Discussion 29 : 09 Mar 2013 at 10.0429
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All politics and nothing else, or rather politics laced with selfish business interests. Hundreds of Cambodians illegally enter Thailand and make a living not always in legal professions. However 2 Thais cross into Cambodian territory without permission and are forced to spend a few years in jail. This is sleazy politics at it's beggarly best. Thailand and Cambodia agree to lower troop presence on the borders, mines replace soldiers. Thailand is in a better position to determine who put the mines and who ordered that to be done. But we have a diplomatic albeit pretty PM and a stuttering army chief. Neither wants to take the push to shove.
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Discussion 28 : 09 Mar 2013 at 05.1728
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After hundreds of year, the same history between Thailand and Cambodia keeps repeating itself over and over again, any time Thailand is perceived as weak or preoccupied. It is time to find out exactly whether Cambodia is our friend or foe, and to treat them as such.
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Discussion 27 : 09 Mar 2013 at 04.3027
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Its simple. Just check the model and where the mines are made from. Then compare that to Thai/Cambodian mines. I'm just shocked about how people put their comments in this forum without actually studying or having evidence about the case.
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Discussion 26 : 09 Mar 2013 at 01.3726
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Shouldn't this story be about the poor guy who lost a leg and the others injured, rather than who stands to lose the most face and profit?

Sick Thailand.
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Discussion 25 : 08 Mar 2013 at 23.4725
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This story is like a botched scenario we are so used to see in most of the Asian films. Lack of plausibility, lack of irrationality. 1 meter from the border ? The warlike Thai military are pushing their zeal to that precision to make it more sensational. The situation is so confused in that area with poachers, Cambodian illegal loggers, smugglers, you name it, crossing the border everyday. Ill intentional people, especially loggers who got shot at by Thai military are prone to play the trick adding more confusion. Who knows? But friendly people, I believe, can talk without jumping the gun at first sight.
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Discussion 24 : 08 Mar 2013 at 22.0624
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When it are 'fresh' landmines, which identification points straight to Cambodia, I hope the Thai government is going to make a BIG fuss about it on International, and ASEAN, level! Or is it a 'no go', not to make a problem for Thaksin's 'brother' Hun Sen? That would make a lot of things more clear. F.i. that temple here, land there aren't the issue, but only their personal power is...
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Discussion 23 : 08 Mar 2013 at 21.5923
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Hun Sen is supposed to be a good friend of Thaksin so why would he issue instructions for mines to be planted just inside the Thai border? Friends do not behave like this do they?
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Discussion 22 : 08 Mar 2013 at 21.5722
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Just one question concerning those three brave rangers, I hope will recover as well as is possible, and for all the soldiers, rangers, policemen, volunteers, teachers, civilians who have been killed, maimed, disabled, wounded there and in the deep South: will they become from this 'government of the people' the same indemnities which are given to the UDD/PTP 'sympathizers' who chose(!) to come to BKK in 2010 and remained there although told to leave(!)? NO? Why? They, at least, do deserve it!
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