Cambodia recruiting more soldiers to fight against Thailand

BANGKOK, May 1 2011 (NNT) - Major General Hun Manet announced that he would give 1 house and 5 rai of land to anyone willing to become a soldier and fight against Thailand.

Deputy Army Commander General-Major Hun Manet the eldest son of Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen has announced that he would give 1 house and 5 rai of land plus a few thousand baht of their normal salary to anyone who are willing to become a soldier and fight against Thailand. This announcement has been broadcast in Sam Rong Province and A-long-weng province.

Meanwhile, Army region 2 spokesman Colonel Prawit Hukaew said that currently the army could not predict when the fighting would stop as Cambodia were now recruiting more soldiers to fight against Thailand. He further said that after the ceasefire agreement there was another breakout of fighting later that night, however, he had called Cambodia and asked for their reason, they said the announcement had not yet reached all of their units and also some soldiers refused to listen to their orders.

Colonal Prawit added that after the conversation, the fighting had lessened, which was considered a good sign.

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Fighting eases on Thai-Cambodian border

Cambodian and Thai soldiers have been exchanging artillery shells along their disputed jungle frontier since April 22 (AFP)

Sunday, May 01, 2011
AFP

BANGKOK — Fighting appeared to subside on the Thai-Cambodian border on Sunday, allowing some evacuees to return home after more than a week of heavy clashes which left 17 people dead, officials said.

There were some clashes overnight Saturday-Sunday involving grenades and mortar fire, in which one Cambodian soldier died, but the front line has been quiet since then, Cambodian defence ministry spokesman Chhum Socheat told AFP.

The two neighbours have been exchanging artillery shells along their disputed jungle frontier in their bloodiest conflict in decades, forcing more than 85,000 civilians to flee on both sides.

As a tentative calm returned to the border area, some of the more than 37,000 Cambodian civilians displaced by the violence were starting to go home.

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Cambodia's army condemns Thailand for 10 straight days of arms attacks

PHNOM PENH, May 1 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Ministry of Defense on Sunday afternoon issued a statement condemning Thai troops for their ten straight days of armed attacks into Cambodian territory at the 13th century Ta Mon temple and Ta Krabei temple in Oddar Meanchey province.

"The repeated invasions of Thai troops into Cambodia have caused gradual damage to Cambodia, it is an unacceptable act," said the statement. "The Royal Cambodian armed forces (RCAF) strongly condemn this latest series of the attacks on Cambodia."

"We'd like to appeal to Thai troops to keep their repeated promises of ceasefire in order to avoid further costing human lives--either soldiers or civilians."

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Thai premier says border situation with Cambodia is improving [... even with daily fighting going on]

May 1, 2011
DPA

Bangkok - The Thai-Cambodia border situation was improving but it remains too early for people who were evacuated from the area to return home, the Thai prime minister said on Sunday.

If there are no more clashes over the next couple days, people can begin returning to their homes, Abhisit Vejjajiva said on his weekly Sunday address.

Thai officials said more than 30,000 civilians had to flee.

The most recent clash ended Saturday morning and left 10 Thai soldiers wounded, the Thai army said. That was the second breach of a ceasefire agreed to by local field commanders and then approved by their superiors on Thursday.

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Sunday Supplement

Hey, Welcome great to have you check u out, Well it's May already it doesn't seem possible , and here it's getting very hot although today we've had some rain which has cooled things down a lot.

Today's supplement has as it's header the calendar for may and later we'll post a copy in the margin.

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Coming up "Kick Start the Week" but fr now enjoy have a great weekend and come back soon.

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Shot in the Arm.

Hey, welcome to our midweeks blog, thanks to our new followers for joining us.
Well, by popular request as they say we have found another set of "The wild couple" Oat and Shayne, complete with a brief summary of their stats.

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Coming up "Something for the weekend Sir?" and on Sunday the Weekly Supplement and Calendar for may.

For now, enjoy and come back soon. Cheers Paul.

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Pain on both sides of the border

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