Thailand accuses Cambodia of planting terrestrial mines after an injured soldier | Disputes

Cambodia rejects the accusation of the Thai army that it violated the truce and international law after the incident near the border.

A Thai soldier was seriously injured by a terrestrial mine near the Cambodian border, a few days after the two countries Accepted a ceasefire After the fatal clashes last month.

The soldier’s left ankle was seriously damaged Tuesday after walking on the aircraft while patrolling about 1 km (0.6 mile) of the Ta Moan Thom temple in the province of Surin in Thailand, the army said. He receives treatment in the hospital.

The spokesman for the Thai army, Major General Winthai Suvaree, said that the incident had proven that Cambodia had violated the truce and violated international agreements, in particular the Ottawa Convention prohibiting land mines.

“Cambodia continues to secretly plant terrestrial mines while the Thai army has always joined peaceful approaches and has not been the initiative party,” he said.

The declaration warned that if violations were continuing, Thailand could “exercise the law of self-defense under the principles of international law to resolve situations that make Thailand permanently lose personnel due to the violations of cease-fire agreements and sovereignty encroachments by Cambodian military forces”.

Phnom Penh rejected the accusation, insisting that he did not put any new mines.

“Cambodia, as proud and head of state to the Ottawa Convention, maintains an absolute and uncompromising position: we have never used, produced or deployed new terrestrial mines under any circumstance, and we strictly and fully honored our obligations under international law,” said the Cambodian Ministry of National Defense in a social position.

It is the fourth Earthly mine incident in recent weeks involving Thai soldiers along the disputed border by the two neighbors in Southeast Asia. SATURDAY, Three soldiers were injured between the province of Sisaket in Thailand and the province of Vihear of Cambodia.

Two previous incidents on July 16 and 23 caused a deterioration in diplomatic relations and sparked five days of fighting that broke out on July 24.

These battles, the worst between the neighbors for more than a decade, have seen exchanges of artillery and air strikes which killed at least 43 people and moved more than 300,000 on both sides.

Thailand accused Cambodia of planting mines on its side borderwhich extends at 817 km (508 miles), with the property of Ta Moan Thom and the pre-vihear temples of the 11th century in the heart of the dispute.

The fragile truce has organized since last week when the two governments agreed to authorize observers of the Association of Nations of Southeast Asia (ASEAN) to monitor the disputed areas to prevent other fights.