Original report from Phnom Penh
18 February 2010
Thai Embassy officials will be allowed to visit a former Thai soldier in a Cambodian military prison, after the man was sentenced to 20 years for planting landmines along the border, defense officials said.
Earlier this month, a military court found Suphab Wong Prakna, 39, guilty of planting mines in Anlong Veng, a former Khmer Rouge redoubt on the Thai border. He was arrested in February 2009 with mines and explosives on his person.
Cambodia and Thailand are engaged in a protracted military standoff, that has left at least eight dead, and the trial raised questions of whether both sides are mining the border.
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