Source: Free Press Magazine Online
Translated from Khmer by Socheata for KI-Media
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Two additional Cambodians living in Banteay Meanchey province were shot and killed by Thai soldiers at two different incidents when they went to log wood in Thai territories or when they went to look for medicinal plants along the border.
The Phnom Penh Post reports today that a Cambodian man armed with an AK-47 rifle was shot and killed by Thai soldiers on Saturday when he joined 29 other villagers who went to log wood in Thailand’s Buriram province, neighboring Cambodia’s Thmor Puok district, Banteay Meanchey province.
Ung Oeun, the Banteay Meanchey provincial governor, told The Phnom Penh Post at the beginning of this week that 30 Cambodians, including the man armed with an AK-47 rifle, crossed the border to enter Thailand’s Buriram province on 13 March, to log wood. They were shot by patrolling Thai soldiers, and the man holding the rifle died on the spot. The other Cambodians fled back to Cambodia.
The INN newspaper reported this week that Thai soldiers found a group of armed man wearing Cambodian army uniforms logging wood inside Thailand, an armed clash ensued and the armed Cambodian man was killed. Thai soldiers suspected that the dead man was a Cambodian soldier.
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