A Thai national accused of planting land mines in a disputed Thai-Cambodian border area will appear before the Cambodian court tomorrow for the ruling in his case.
Tomorrow, the Cambodian court will hand down a sentence for the case in which a Thai national, Suphab Wongpakna, was accused of planting several land mines along the Thai-Cambodian border.
Suphab was arrested by Cambodian soldiers in February last year. It is speculated that the defendant will receive a jail term of 15 to 30 years.
His Cambodian lawyer said Suphab has confessed to the court saying that he illegally entered Cambodia with seven other Thai nationals to plant the land mines but only him was captured. The lawyer claimed that Suphab confessed to having been ordered by Thai soldiers to do so, in an attempt to kill Cambodians living in the border area.
The ruling will be made amid fragile relations between the two countries. There is a speculation that the case will benefit Phnom Penh in its political bargaining with Thailand.
Cambodian Foreign Ministry spokesman Koy Kuong stated that the Thai government must take responsibility for the matter while the acting Thai government spokesman Panithan Wattanayakorn declined giving an opinion. He only said the case should be conducted fairly under the judicial procedure.
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