Cambodian Sends Diplomatic Note to Thai Embassy over Iinhumane Acts’

The Cambodian Foreign Affair and International Cooperation Minis- try (MFA) on Monday sent a diplomatic note to the Thai embassy in Phnom Penh, complaining about “inhumane acts,” a reference to the alleged burning to death of one Cambodian citizen, according to the MFA diplomatic note. According to a report from the Provincial Authority of Oddor Meanchey province in Cambodia, on September 11, 2009 at noon, Thai black-uniformed forces of Unit 2608 fired at a group of Cambodian villagers while they were allegedly cutting down trees illegally at the border area between boundary pillars 12 and 13. “Two teenagers from the group were badly wounded in the shooting. One of them, named Mao Kleung, managed to escape the scene, while the other injured boy, named Yon Rith, who was 16 years old, was arrested and burned alive by the Thai forces,” said the diplomatic note which DAP News Cambodia obtained. “The Royal Government of Cambodia considered these reported acts as a serious breach of internationally accepted humanitarian principle, which should not be committed by any agent of a civilized State in official capacity, and contrary to the spirit of Point 11 of the record of Discussion of the 6th Meeting of the Joint Commission for Bilateral Cooperation between Thailand and Cambodia on 4-5 August, 2009 in Bangkok,” the diplomatic note said. The Royal Government of Camb- odia requested “the Authorities concerned of Thailand to take appropriated measures to prevent such an atrocity from happening again and conduct a thorough investigation into this unfortunate incident to bring to justice those who committed the above acts of cruelty.”