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| Cambodian soldiers inspect a multi-rocket launcher near the Cambodian-Thai border in Oddar Meanchey province, Cambodia, 26 April 2011. Border clashes between Thai and Cambodian troops after four days of fighting killed and injured soldiers on both sides and forced thousands of civilians to evacuate their villages near two disputed temples. Both sides blame the other for instigating the fighting. EPA/MAK REMISSA |
Apr 28, 2011
DPA
Phnom Penh/Bangkok – Cambodia said fighting between its forces and Thailand had resumed in four places along their disputed border as of early Thursday.
Cambodian government spokesman Phay Siphan said the clashes, which started the previous evening, involved heavy artillery and small arms fire, and were focused on the border around the contested temples of Ta Moan and Ta Krabei in north-west Cambodia, as well as a village called Thmar Doun, which lies between the two temples.
Phay Siphan said fighting had also broken out at the border crossing town of O’Smach further east.
Hundreds of civilians fled O’Smach town late Wednesday, the Phnom Penh Post newspaper reported Thursday.
Phay Siphan said Bangkok had not replied to the proposal by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen that the nations’ two leaders meet at the May 7-8 regional summit of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Jakarta.
‘We don’t hear anything,’ he said. ‘Thailand’s response has been fighting with us.’
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