Wednesday, December 29, 2010
By Suy Se (AFP)
PHNOM PENH — Cambodia said Wednesday it would charge a Thai ruling party politician and six others whom it accused of illegally entering its territory after they were arrested in a disputed border area.
The incident is likely to renew diplomatic friction between the neighbouring countries, which have a long-standing border dispute.
Democrat Party lawmaker Panich Vikitsreth was detained along with a group of journalists and members of the royalist "Yellow Shirt" movement while inspecting contested territory from Thailand's eastern Sa Kaeo province.
"They were measuring Thai territory inside Cambodian territory. So Cambodia has the right to arrest them," Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said in a speech at a government meeting on rural development.
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