Saturday, April 30, 2011

Thai-Cambodia border tense as Phnom Penh claims truce

29/04/2011
AFP

Heavy weapons fire pounded the Thai-Cambodian border for an eighth day on Friday as Bangkok denied claims from Phnom Penh of a truce to end the countries’ bloodiest conflict in decades.

The Cambodian defence ministry announced a peace deal on Friday, after clashes on the disputed jungle frontier shattered a previous short-lived ceasefire.

But Colonel Preeda Butraj, a spokesman for the Thai army in the country’s northeast, dismissed suggestions of an agreement.

“I have to say that Cambodia is unreliable and untrustworthy. I don’t know what their statement said but I suggest that we shouldn’t trust it. We have to wait and see what the situation is like day by day,” he said.

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