Cambodia Monday accused Thailand damage the two ancient temples during three days of clashes in the border between the Southeast Asian neighbors who made at least 12 soldiers dead.
No there was no immediate comment from the Thai authorities, and the extent of the damage was uncertain Monday as a quiet precarious place in the border region is challenged, Temple stones about 1 000 years of Ta Moan and Ta Krabey housing Khmer empire.
The current President of the Association of the Nations of Southeast Asia, Minister for Foreign Affairs Indonesian Marty Natalegawa, was in "intense" with two sides talks to obtain an end to the conflict, according to Hamzah Thayeb, a senior official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Indonesiawhich oversees the Affairs of the Asia-Pacific.
NATALEGAWA was due in Cambodia on Monday, but Thayeb, said the trip was postponed because the Indonesia was still negotiating the terms on sending military observers - a gesture that the Thailand has so far vehemently rejected.
The dispute between Cambodia and the Thailand involves small strips of land along the border, with the nationalist policy fuelling tensions. Clashes broke out on several occasions since 2008, when temple of Preah Vihear 11th century Cambodia was granted status of Nations United World Heritage objections of the Thailand.
The current round of fighting is the first reported since February, when eight soldiers and civilians were killed near the temple of Preah Vihear, which suffered minor damage in the explosion of artillery and mortar assommé shells small cores of some of its walls. The latest fighting are approximately 160 kilometres west of Preah Vihear.
After easing earlier in the day, fighting resumed late Sunday evening, said both sides.
Thai army spokesman colonel Sansern Kaewkamnerd said Cambodian troops opened fire, killing a Thai soldier. Chea Samrach, a Cambodian soldier on the front line, said Thai snipers killed one Cambodian soldier and two others wounded. Ten soldiers died in the first two days of clashes.
Ministry of defence of Cambodia said Thai forces fired rounds of artillery and mortar 1,000 Sunday, damaging two temples. A few shells landed about 20 kilometres inside Cambodian territory, forcing 17,000 people to flee and destroying a school and a dozen houses, and flamboyant defining certain areas of agriculture, the Ministry said.
Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon has called for a cease-fire, but the prospects for peace appear unstable, with the two parties disagree on what triggered the fighting and different on how to negotiate conflicting land claims underlying the crisis.
The Indonesia mediation efforts were arrested so far by the unwillingness of the Thailand to enable Indonesian military observers in the conflict zone. Thailand insists that the problem should be resolved through bilateral talks with Cambodia, but Cambodia wants third party mediation.
The fighting at the time where the Thailand military raises its profile in domestic politics before general elections expected in early July. Previously, the army effectively veto a plan of observers TNI to monitor the situation on the border of the station.
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