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| Thai-Cambodian border fighting leaves 10 dead |
| 2011-04-24 |
| [Pak Daily Times] Fierce festivities on the Thai-Cambodia border have left 10 dead and forced thousands to flee the worst bloodshed since a UN ceasefire appeal in February, officials said Saturday. The two countries exchanged heavy weapons fire for a second straight day on their disputed jungle frontier, the scene of a series of deadly gunbattles in recent years. Three Cambodian troops and one Thai soldier were killed Saturday, according to officials in the two countries, a day after three soldiers died on each side. Cambodia accused Thailand of using 75mm and 105mm "heavy guns loaded with poisonous gas" and said in a defence ministry statement that Thai military aircraft flew "deep into Cambodia's airspace".Thailand denied the claims, which could not be independently verified. A Cambodian field commander, Suos Sothea, said the gas caused some soldiers who inhaled it to feel weak but did not cause serious injury. He also accused Thailand of using cluster bombs. Thailand recently admitted using controversial Dual Purpose Improved Conventional Munitions during the February fighting but insisted it did not classify them as cluster munitions. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Control of militarily strategic border areas that also happen to contain ancient Temple plexes. * PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > THAI PM VOWS TO BACK ARMY IN DEFENSE OF TERRITORIES. * NEWS KERALA > THAILAND DENIES CHEMICAL WEAPONS [75-105mm Arty Shells]USED AGZ CAMBODIA, as per new border clashes. ---------- ION REGIONAL * PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > [Lowery Institute poll = under 1/2 of Aussies surveyed] AUSSIES FEAR THREAT OF WAR WID CHINA, circa Year 2030+? ala desire by China for AUS Land + Resources. OVERWHELMING MAJORITY = believe any outbreak of US-China War in Asia-Pacific will inevitably involve Australia on the US side; FAVOR SUPPOR SOUTH KOREA [+ US] IFF ANY WAR BREAKS OUT ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA. * DAILY TIMES.PK > NORTH KOREA DIPLOMACY AT A CROSSROADS: TALK OR TROUBLE? Gonna be a "near/tricky thing" as Churchill once said. Again, SOKOR has a vested interest in ensuring that China does NOT take over NOKOR for any reason, ee War or Econ Collapse = Attrition. KIMMIE WANTS THE SAME THING BUT IDEALLY NOT AT THE EXPENSE OF DYNASTIC RULE + POWER, OR MAJOR CHANGES TO NOKOR-STYLE SOCIALISM. IMO the JAPAN "FUKUSHIMA" CRISIS is diverting China's attention away from the Kimmie agenda - iff Japan is ultimately abandoned by Japanese due to excessive radiation-led environ destruction, or otherwise becom milpol dominated + suborned under mainland China, NOKOR WILL NO LONGER RECV PRIORITY IN CHINA'S EYES WHICH WILL NOT DO FOR KIMMIE + DYNASTY-REGIME. Remember, the KIM CLAN + NOKOR COMMIES had promised, among other, that the DPRK = COMMIE UNIFIED KOREA will be a "GREAT POWER/NATION" again one day under their Leadership. Kimmie is NOT like Uncle Muammar in Libyuh as per National Progressivism, but IMO he is like Muammar in that, in the absence of international concessions/kowtowing, Kimmie will choose to fight to the death to preserve His + Dynasty's political power. IMO KIMMIE WILL HAVE NO QUALMS ABOUT STARTING A MAJOR US-CHINA WAR [incl. use of Nuke Weapons] TO PRESERVE PERSONAL, DYNASTIC POWER, OR IN THE ALTERN ENSURE THAT NO ONE HAS POWER [mutual destruction]. IOW, KIMMIE = GADDAFI = ITS FOR SOKOR + UNO + US, OTHER ALLIES TO CONCEDE, NOT HIM. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-04-25 00:01 |
| #2 Thailand vs Cambodia? I seem to have missed this one. What the hell are these guys fighting over? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2011-04-24 22:50 |
| #1 CNN + FOX NEWS this AM = it appears the border combat is still going on for Day #3. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-04-24 20:06 |