Plan for foreign military attache visit stirs Thai ire
3/03/2011
Wassana Nanuam & Thanida Tansubhapol
Bangkok Post
Border tensions have risen again following Thailand’s opposition to Cambodia’s plan to take 10 international assistant military attaches into the 4.6-square-kilometre disputed area.
Cambodia plans to take the 10 assistant military attaches from Phnom Penh to visit the Keo Sikha Kiri Svara pagoda and surrounding areas which are in disputed territory, said a Thai army source. Cambodia hoped to show the international community that those areas belonged to Cambodia.
“When Thailand led 14 military attaches on a border visit in February we went only as far as Pha Mor I Dang and Ban Phum Srol. We never set foot in the disputed area,” the source said.
Although Cambodia had changed the border visit day from yesterday to today, the military would continue to object to the visit and has ordered troop reinforcements as a precautionary measure, said the source.
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