New clashes erupted between soldiers murderers, Friday, April 22, at the border between Thailand and Cambodia despite a fragile cease-fire brokered in February. Three Thai soldiers and three Cambodians were killed, several others injured, according to authorities. As in violent clashes on February 4 to 7, both sides have denied responsibility for the incidents that occurred in the early morning near the temples of Ta and Ta Krabei Muean Thom.
The clashes lasted several hours. "The Cambodian soldiers opened fire with assault rifles on Thailand (...) first and they began to bombard us with artillery," said Thai Minister of Defence, Prawit Wongsuwan. We took appropriate measures of retaliation. " He added: "I think Cambodia is to take control of temples at the border." Phnom Penh, meanwhile, has accused neighboring troops have penetrated four hundred yards inside its territory.
Thai soldiers "launched an unprovoked attack," replied the spokesman of the Cambodian government, Phay Siphan. "This is a new invasion of Cambodia by Thailand. We can not accept that." Thousands of villagers were evacuated as a precaution: 7500 Thai side people, 200 families on the Cambodian side, according to local officials.
The border between the two countries has never been fully demarcated, in particular because of the presence of many mines left behind by decades of civil war in Cambodia. In February, the fighting had mostly taken place a hundred miles to the east near the Khmer temple of Preah Vihear. There are forty-nine years, the International Court of Justice had sent to Cambodia's sovereignty from the ruins of the eleventh century, with its classification by UNESCO in 2008 had rekindled tensions.
But the Thais its main access control, and both countries claim an area of 4.6 km2 below the building. Analysts said the border dispute both sides are used to glorify the nationalist sentiments of the population. Following the fighting in February, which had at least ten deaths, seven Cambodian side, the Security Council of the United Nations had called for a cease-fire permanent, but rejected the request from Phnom Penh to send peacekeepers at the border.
Both then neighbors had given their agreement to send observers to the scene, after mediation organized by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). But since the Thai military announced that these observers were not welcome and they were never deployed. Indonesia, which holds the rotating presidency of ASEAN, on Friday urged the two neighbors to "an immediate cessation of hostilities" and to "resolve their disputes by peaceful means." Cambodia claims since February, requires mediation Bangkok but only bilateral discussions.
Thailand secondly recently acknowledged using during the fighting in February, the controversial weapons, the "improved conventional munitions double effect" (DPICM), while insisting that they were not weapons munitions. Coalition against weapons munitions has denounced that assertion. 
The clashes lasted several hours. "The Cambodian soldiers opened fire with assault rifles on Thailand (...) first and they began to bombard us with artillery," said Thai Minister of Defence, Prawit Wongsuwan. We took appropriate measures of retaliation. " He added: "I think Cambodia is to take control of temples at the border." Phnom Penh, meanwhile, has accused neighboring troops have penetrated four hundred yards inside its territory.
Thai soldiers "launched an unprovoked attack," replied the spokesman of the Cambodian government, Phay Siphan. "This is a new invasion of Cambodia by Thailand. We can not accept that." Thousands of villagers were evacuated as a precaution: 7500 Thai side people, 200 families on the Cambodian side, according to local officials.
The border between the two countries has never been fully demarcated, in particular because of the presence of many mines left behind by decades of civil war in Cambodia. In February, the fighting had mostly taken place a hundred miles to the east near the Khmer temple of Preah Vihear. There are forty-nine years, the International Court of Justice had sent to Cambodia's sovereignty from the ruins of the eleventh century, with its classification by UNESCO in 2008 had rekindled tensions.
But the Thais its main access control, and both countries claim an area of 4.6 km2 below the building. Analysts said the border dispute both sides are used to glorify the nationalist sentiments of the population. Following the fighting in February, which had at least ten deaths, seven Cambodian side, the Security Council of the United Nations had called for a cease-fire permanent, but rejected the request from Phnom Penh to send peacekeepers at the border.
Both then neighbors had given their agreement to send observers to the scene, after mediation organized by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). But since the Thai military announced that these observers were not welcome and they were never deployed. Indonesia, which holds the rotating presidency of ASEAN, on Friday urged the two neighbors to "an immediate cessation of hostilities" and to "resolve their disputes by peaceful means." Cambodia claims since February, requires mediation Bangkok but only bilateral discussions.
Thailand secondly recently acknowledged using during the fighting in February, the controversial weapons, the "improved conventional munitions double effect" (DPICM), while insisting that they were not weapons munitions. Coalition against weapons munitions has denounced that assertion.
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