13 September 2023 at 12:13 PUBLISHED
MP Kannavee Suebsang, a member of the Fair Party, is urging the government to look into reports of Myanmar soldiers entering Tak’s Umphang area with weapons.
Additionally, he urged the government to release the information.
According to the opposition MP, the two incidents gave the Karen National Liberation Army ( KNLA) the impression that Thailand was supporting the Myanmar military. This was based on conversations with some Myanmar – and Karen-language media.
He stated that” that kind of infraction of Thailand’s state sovereignty by nearly 100 Myanmar military is a national problem, not merely an issue at the border.”
According to him, this matter needs to be looked into and handled as an global relations concern by the Ministry of Defence and the Minister of Foreign Affairs. According to Mr. Kannavee, who cited data from activists working in the Thai-Myanmar border regions, between 80 and 100 heavily armed Burmese soldiers entered Thailand on September 3 through two borders villages, Ban Le Tong Khu and Ban Mo Ta Lua.
A Myanmar town was surrounded by Karen-armed guerillas on the other side of the border, he claimed, while the soldiers were camped out in a grain field only one kilometer from the closest Thai community.
Later, he said, Thai people informed their village chief that Myanmar soldiers were present in Thailand. According to him, Thai troops stationed outside resisted taking action against the invaders until a social media user announced their appearance on September 5.
According to a cause, the KNLA and Myanmar troops were to be negotiated with until they agreed to stop obstructing the soldiers’ path by the Naresuan Task Force. However, the Myanmar troops persisted in refusing to leave, prompting the government to engage in a second round of negotiations with them before they finally left.
People saw 10 to 20 more military Myanmar soldiers heading back to Ban Le Tong Khu the following weekend to acquire food.
The village chief, Choku Rotsirichai, informed the Thai government of the incident, and they dispatched soldiers to communicate and guarantee the soldiers’ return to their own territory, he claimed.