Thailand-Cambodia border dispute: 100,000 Thai civilians evacuated amid second day of clashes | Thailand
Thailand evacuated more than 100,000 people along the Cambodian border, on Friday, the two countries have been fighting the most bloody military conflicts for more than ten years.
The Ministry of Interior said 100,672 people from four border states have been moved to shelters, and the Ministry of Health announced that the death fee rose to 14.
Thailand confused a F-16 fighter aircraft to bomb the targets in Cambodia on Thursday after the artillery volleyball on both sides killed at least 11 civilians.
Both blamed each other for initiating a morning conflict in a controversial region of the border, which rose from a small gun fire to at least six places at least six places at a border where sovereignty has been discussed for more than a century.
On Friday morning, the Thai Army said that the clashes started at the border regions of Chong Bok and Phu Makhuea in the Ubon Ratchathani province and the Phanom Dong Rak Region in Surin. He said Cambodian forces used heavy weapons including artillery and rockets and responded to Thai forces.
In 13 years, the worst struggle among countries came after Thailand’s reminder of Phnom Penh’s ambassador to Phnom Penh and threw Cambodia’s ambassador to the loss of a limb to a land mining, which Bangkok had recently been thrown by rival troops.
Thailand said there were 14 deaths, including an eight -year -old child. Authorities said that 31 people were injured on Thursday.
Tairanda Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai told reporters, saying, “This is not clear, using heavy weapons outside the conflict zones,” Use of power “We did not comply with the use of force and international law,” he said.
“We are connected to peaceful vehicles and there must be discussions, but it was a provocation that happened and we had to defend ourselves.”
Thailand Health Minister Somsak The Thepsuthin said that a hospital was shot by bombing in the province of Surin and that it should be accepted as “war crime ..
The Cambodian government, the Ministry of Defense and Foreign Affairs officials did not give any guesses about the prediction of ongoing deaths or the number of people evacuated.
The UN Security Council would be gathered on conflict on Friday.
The United States, which has long been Thailand’s treaty for a long time, asked for hostility to be terminated immediately.
“We are concerned about increasing violence along the Thai-Kambodia border, and we are deeply upset with reports that damage civilians, Tom said Tommy Pigott, spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“The United States wants the immediate stop of hostilities, the protection of civilians and the conflict to be resolved peacefully.”
On Thursday, the British Foreign Ministry advised everyone against everyone except for important travels to some parts of Cambodia and Thailand.
With Agent France-Presse and Reuters
