Thailand remembers its Ambassador of Phnom Penh and expelled the Cambodia envoy as an investment in the explosions of land mines has increased a long -standing border litigation.
The Thai Foreign Ministry has lowered its diplomatic relations with Cambodia and filed an official demonstration after an investigation by the Thai army would have found evidence that Cambodia had put new land mines in a disputed border area, announced on Wednesday Phumtham Vejjayachai, interim Prime Minister.
The government has also ordered the closure of all border control points under the jurisdiction of the second army of Thailand, he said.
Cambodia’s state subsecretary, Lieutenant-General Maly Scheata, rejected Thai allegations, affirming in a press release that the border area “still contains land mines of past wars which had not yet been fully erased”.
On Wednesday, five members of a Thai military patrol was injured by a terrestrial mine in the Nam Yuen district in the northeast of Ubon Ratchathani province, said the Thai army, a soldier losing one leg. The incident follows another explosion of terrestrial mines on July 16 in which a Thai soldier lost one foot.
Tensions have remained high since a Cambodian soldier was killed during a shooting incident on May 28 in the disputed border area. Since then, neighboring countries have led a tit-for-tat political conflict, Thailand closing border passages and Cambodia to petition the International Court of Justice and prohibit certain Thai imports.
A telephone call disclosed between former Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra and Hun Sen, the former Prime Minister and head of the Cambodia current Senate, led Thailand to suspend Shinawatra.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, on the other hand, cited the conflict when he announced last week that Cambodia would begin to consume its young citizens. He also started a wave of raids on some of his many scam centers after Shinawatra cited them as a national threat to Thailand.
Includes agency reports France-Presse and Reuters.