DPA
Phnom Penh - Armed Cambodian military police prevented a group of 16 opposition lawmakers Thursday from inspecting a new boundary marker on the border with Vietnam, an opposition member said.
Cambodia and Vietnam are in the process of demarcating their shared border, and the placement of some markers has proved contentious with claims they encroach on Cambodian farmers' fields.
Sam Rainsy Party lawmaker Son Chhay said the legislators had heard that the border marker was well inside Cambodian territory and went to inspect it but more than a dozen military police tried to prevent them from reaching the site.
"If the government has nothing to hide, they should not work so hard to stop us 5 kilometres away," he said by telephone.
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