- At least 30 people killed; More than 130,000 displaced.
- Thai Navy reports confrontations in the coastal province of Treat.
- The troops of both sides reinforced in the midst of the diplomatic crisis.
Sisaket: The fight at the Thai border-Cambodian extended to a third day and new inflammation points emerged on Saturday while both parties sought diplomatic support, saying that they had acted in self-defense and asking the other to cease to fight and begin negotiations.
At least 30 people have been killed and more than 130,000 people displaced in the worst fight between the residents of Southeast Asia in 13 years.
The Thai Navy said there were clashes in the Coastal Province of early Treatment on Saturday, a new front of more than 100 kilometers (60 miles) of other conflict points along the border with the time that has long been.
The two countries have faced each other since the murder of a Cambodian soldier at the end of May during a brief skirmish. The troops on both sides of the border were reinforced in the middle of a complete diplomatic crisis that led the fragile coalition government of Thailand to the edge of collapse.
Thailand’s deaths remained at age 19 on Saturday, while the spokesman of the Ministry of Defense of Cambodia, Maly Scheata, said that five soldiers and eight civilians had been killed in the fight.
In the province of Sisket of the Kanthralak district of Thailand, on the border near some of the clashes, the worker of the Chianuwat Hotel Thalalai said that the city had emptied.
“Almost everyone is gone, it is almost a deserted city,” the 31 -year -old player told Reuters. “My hotel is still open for some of the closest to the border area that need a place to stay.”
Thailand ambassador to the United Nations said on Friday a meeting of the Security Council that the soldiers had been injured by newly planted land mines in Thai territory twice since mid -July, he says that Cambodia has denied strongly, and said that Cambodia had launched attacks on Thursday morning.
“Thailand urges Cambodia to immediately cease all hostilities and acts of aggression, and resume the dialogue of good faith,” said Cherdchai Chaivaivid to the observations published to the media.
Dispute history
The Cambodia Ministry of Defense said that Thailand had launched “a deliberate military attack, not caused and illegal” on Thursday, and was now mobilizing military troops and teams on the border.
“These deliberate military preparations reveal Thailand’s intention to expand his aggression and rape the sovereignty of Cambodia,” the ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
Cambodia asked the international community to “condemn Thailand’s aggression in the strongest terms” and avoid an expansion of Thailand’s military activities.
Bangkok reiterated that he wanted to solve the dispute bilaterally, telling the UNSC that it was “deeply unfortunate that Cambodia has deliberately avoided a significant dialogue and, on the other hand, tried to internationalize the issue to meet their own political objectives.”
Thailand and Cambodia have discussed for decades for the jurisdiction of several points not highlighted along their land border of 817 km (508 miles), with the property of the ancient Hindu temples that Gimen and the preeah of 11th of the eleventh century, central in the disputes.
Preah Vihear was granted to Cambodia by the International Court of Justice in 1962, but the tension increased in 2008 after Cambodia tried to list it as a Unesco World Heritage site.
That led to skames for several years and at least a dozen deaths.
Cambodia in June said he had asked the court to resolve his disputes with Thailand, which says he has never recognized the jurisdiction of the court and prefers a bilateral approach.
