Ready for battle!
MCOT News reports:
Thai army commander-in-chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha on Monday reaffirmed the army is ready to engage in battle with Cambodia if the government orders so, standing firm that the Indonesian observers will be allowed to observe the border only if Cambodia withdraws its troops from the conflict zone and returns to dialogue.
With a rising death toll, Prayuth had been criticized, and so he responded:
Gen Prayuth stated troops have been deployed in every conflict zone to protect Thailand’s sovereignty and have never retreated even a single step from the border. Now the soldiers are staying fixed at the Thai border and we are ready to fight….
No wonder the Indonesian foreign minister has canceled his meeting with his Thai counterpart, Kasit Piromya.
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