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Published: 1/01/2011
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Thailand Patriot Network representatives on Saturday submitted a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, asking for justice, humanity and to respect the civil rights of seven Thais currently detained in Cambodia.
The group, led by Somboon Thongburan and Tossapon Kaewtima, left the letter with a United Nations security officer at the world body's Bangkok office on Ratchadamnoen Road.
The seven detained Thais, including Democrat Party member of parliament Panich Vikitsreth and members of the Peoples Alliance for Democracy (PAD) protest movement, also known as yellow shirts.
They were apprehended by Cambodian troops along the Thai border with Cambodia's Banteay Meanchey province. Cambodia said the seven Thais intruded onto its soil, a claim that has not been contested by Thai authorities.
The Patriot Network took land documents to the UN office. According to the Network activists, a temporary office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was located there in 1977-1978 during the war in Cambodia at Boundary Marker No 46, currently in the area of Thailand's Prachin Buri, the province adjacent to Sa Kaeo. (Agencies)
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