(Bloomberg) – The Thai Army said three soldiers were injured in a landscape explosion near its controversial border with Cambodia and threatened a fragile ceasefire agreement between two neighbors.
One soldier suffered a serious leg injury when he entered the landscape on Saturday morning while guarding the border in the province, Ket said, the Royal Thai army said in a statement. Two other soldiers suffered minor injuries.
He pointed out the hidden use of the Cambodian units, the Thai Army spokesman Winthai Suvaree in his statement, adding that the incident is a serious obstacle to the ceasefire and peaceful solution of the border conflict.
The Thai government said it would file a protest against Cambodia for violating the Ottawa Convention, which prohibits the use of anti-personnel mines.
At the end of July, Thai and Cambodian forces fought for five days and used fighter aircraft, rockets and heavy artillery before Malaysia mediated a ceasefire supported by the US and China. The clashes were killed by over 40 people, injured many others, and displaced hundreds of thousands of border areas in both countries.
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This was preceded by months of cooking the tension of borders during which at least two Thai soldiers were crippled. Last week, higher security officials from Cambodia and Thailand agreed on measures to promote a ceasefire and alleviate tension. The defensive attaché teams from the Association of Member States of Southeast Asia also adopted neutral monitoring.
The Thailand-Kambod is monitored back to the colonial era that defined their boundaries, and the resulting maps that distributed them differently. The sovereignty of several areas along their approximately 800 kilometers (500 kilometers) The dispute points remains, and various efforts to define the boundary must still bring results. Relations have been stable since the 2011 clashes, which left dozens of dead, a fresh round of fighting before last month.
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