Thai soldiers again accused of shooting dead Cambodian loggers
Phnom Penh - Thai troops shot dead a Cambodian man who crossed into Thailand to fell trees illegally, local media reported Friday.
Phlok Lai, 55, is the third Cambodian national to be shot and killed by Thai troops in the past three months.
District police chief Keo Tann said another man in the group of 10 was seriously injured while a third is missing after the incident late Tuesday. The remaining seven made it back safely to Cambodia.
"The Thai officers at the border said they would find the missing man if we ordered people to refrain from going to Thailand to log illegally," Keo Tann told the Phnom Penh Post newspaper.
Earlier this month a Cambodian man was shot dead by Thai soldiers while illegally logging inside Thailand. In the most notorious case Thai soldiers were accused of shooting and then burning alive a 16-year-old Cambodian youth in September. Thailand denied the youth was burned alive.
The Nation
There really is no love lost between these two and it's pretty much a rock bottom relationship at the moment and with stuff like this happening more frequently it's not on the road to getting any better anytime soon, but the above is......well......unsettling to say the least. There doesn't seem to be much accountability in the far flung areas, dangerous places for all, and I'm sure the army does whatever it wants when away from prying eyes.
Thai soldiers shooting Cambodian loggers......again
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