Written by DAP NEWS -- Thursday, 10 September 2009
Over 200 Thai vendors demonstrated at Cambodia-Thailand border at Beoung Trakourn border crossing to ask for free imports and exports between Cambodia and Thailand, according to local authority said on Wednesday.
Over 200 Thai vendors demonstrated at Cambodia-Thailand border at Beoung Trakourn border crossing to ask for free imports and exports between Cambodia and Thailand, according to local authority said on Wednesday.
Chief of the Cambodian Beong Trakourn border crossing Nou Yath told DAP News Cambodia that “Thai people always demand we open this gate to them and another corridors as well, but both local authorities did not agree to permit this because it is illegal.”
“There were over 200 Thai vendors who demonstrated in front of the gate,” he added. He stressed that he invited the Thai district governor to discuss this case, and both sides agreed to open the gate, but “some of the vendors always try to do like this, so it is an illegal aggression towards Cambodia, although the two district governors made agreement.”
Nou Yath reported the goings on to the Banteay Meanchey governor Sar Cham Rong, who told DAP News Cambodia that “I do not know what happened at the border crossing yet.”
“The Thai side should inform us three to seven days before they [permit protests] like this,” Nou Yath added. Further inquiries from DAP News Cambodia about the case were fruitless.
Sum Chan Kea, a Banteay Meanchey local staff member of rights group Adhoc, told DAP News Cambodia that “It was maybe in case of corruption in Cambodia, such as bribes.”
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