With the power of 5 billion dollars per year military budget, Thailand continues to use its might to push to get what it wants from its weakest neighbor: More territory from Cambodia and to hide or divert its domestic problems.

While Abhisit and many Thai leaders are playing politics from their comfortable office and villa in Bangkok, Thai soldiers, many of them are Khmer natives from Thailand Isaan, are being sent to kill and destroy their own kind—the underprivileged Khmers on Cambodia side.

Whether Abhisit and the warmongers in his government provoke the fight to save their job as many observers have stated the loss of lives and the pain and suffering to Khmer people on both sides of the border are real.

We never know how many soldiers have been killed and maimed, but thousands of Khmer families have been evacuated from their home to live on the dirty ground like animals.

Both Pictures: Reuters

This nonsensical conflict must be ended and those irresponsible leaders must pay the price. As one of the so-called civilized nations in Asia, Thailand should be ashamed for its naked aggression.

45,200 Cambodian evacuees flee home due to clashes with Thailand

English.news.cn 2011-04-30 00:12:58

PHNOM PENH, April 29 (Xinhua) -- The eighth day of armed clashes between Cambodian and Thai troops over disputed border areas had forced other 11,200 Cambodian people to flee homes, bringing the total number of evacuees to 45,200 by Friday evening, said a senior government official.

"Too many Cambodian evacuees have fled home in the latest rounds of fighting with Thailand," Nhim Vanda, the first vice- president of the Cambodian National Committee for Disaster Management, told Xinhua by telephone on Friday. "We have never expected such great number of evacuees, so now our major concerns for them are clean water and sanitary facilities."

During the fighting, the villagers living as far as 18 kilometers surrounding the fighting areas at the 11th century Ta Moan temple and Ta Krabei temple in Oddar Meanchey province have forced to flee for safe shelters.
The last day of armed clashes happened at Thursday night and lasted until 6:00 a.m. on Friday morning.

Cambodian and Thai troops had exchanged gunfire for eight straight days over disputed border areas at Ta Moan and Ta Krabei temples, which lie 150 kilometers west of Preah Vihear Temple.

The fighting had killed eight Cambodian soldiers, seven Thai soldiers and one Thai civilian, and caused several dozens injured.

The border between Thailand and Cambodia has never been completely demarcated.

Cambodia's Preah Vihear temple was enlisted as a World Heritage Site on July 7, 2008. But Thailand claims the ownership of 4.6 square kilometers (1.8 square miles) of scrub next to the temple. Just a week after the enlistment, Cambodia and Thailand had a border conflict, triggering a military build-up along the border, and periodic clashes between Cambodian and Thai soldiers have resulted in the deaths of troops on both sides.