By SOPHENG CHEANG
The Associated Press
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A Cambodian military court on Friday sentenced a Thai man to 20 years in prison for trying to lay land mines.Judge Pohk Pan convicted Suphap Wongpakna (picture), 39, of illegally entering the country and planting an explosive to cause bodily harm, an offense under Cambodia's terrorism law.
Relations between Cambodia and Thailand are tense over territorial disputes and the status of a former Thai prime minister.
Suphap was arrested by Cambodian border guards on Feb. 27, 2009, along the border near the town of Anlong Veng in northern Cambodia. He was arrested just a few meters (yards) inside Cambodian territory while carrying a land mine, according to the court's record.
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