""In less than one month, there's already five incidents of landmine explosions that have caused severe casualties and injuries to our soldiers. Five of them lost their legs. It is unacceptable," Thailand's Foreign Minister Maris Sangiampongsa told reporters at a briefing in Ubon Ratchatani, near the Cambodian border, on August 16. The Thai military and Foreign Ministry arranged several trips for foreign media, including DW, to present material supporting their claims. Thai authorities say they have discovered over a dozen freshly laid PMN-2 type landmines in their territory bordering Cambodia this month."
""For Thai people, landmines are really cruel. Sometimes landmines not kill people, they cut off their legs making it painful for their whole life," Captain Pakapron Sawangpiean of the Thai military told DW."
Thailand and Cambodia remain tense after five days of cross-border combat in July that involved ground troops, artillery and jets, killed at least 43 people and displaced over 300,000 civilians. Both sides agreed to a ceasefire brokered by Malaysia, China and the US that came into effect on July 29, and both declared they will prolong the truce despite trading allegations of skirmishes. A century-old border dispute underlies the confrontation. Fighting was sparked by Thai claims that Cambodia planted landmines that wounded troops. Thai authorities report multiple recent landmine incidents causing severe injuries and say they found freshly laid PMN-2 mines.
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