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Thai Evacuated from Phnom
Penh
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Date: 30 January
2003
Thailand is evacuating about its
400 people from Cambodia following the anti-Thai protesters' attacks
targeting the Thai embassy and Thai business.
The government will send an
aircraft of the Royal Thai Air Force to receive Thai envoys,
diplomatic staff, and Thai people back home under the protection of
a Thai commando group.
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra
announced also that Cambodian Ambassador to Thailand would also be
called on, and would be sent back to Cambodia in a strong protest
over the raid and destruction that Thai Embassy in Phnom Penh had to
face from the violence. Simultaneously, the diplomatic relation
would be temporarily downgraded from the ambassador level to the
charge d'affaires level until the Cambodian Government could give
the official explanation with appropriate actions to address the
problem.
The violence comes after a Thai
actress, Suwanan Kongying, allegedly said that Angkor Wat,
Cambodia's top cultural icon, belonged to Thailand. She has denied
making the comments.
The demonstration demanded a public
apology from the popular actress while the Cambodian government
called on the protesters to exercise restraint to prevent the
further deterioration of the situation and diplomatic relation
between the two neighboring countries.
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