BANGKOK, Dec. 13– The Royal Thai Army (RTA) said on Saturday that Cambodia had launched BM-21 rocket strikes targeting civilian areas in Thailand’s Sisaket province, leaving four people injured.
The attack took place as local residents were rushing to bomb shelters immediately after hearing air raid warnings, said the statement released on social media.
The RTA strongly condemned the Cambodian military’s actions, stating that the incident constitutes clear evidence of Cambodia’s use of weapons to target civilian zones that are unrelated to military operations.
In an official statement released on Saturday, the country’s military reiterated that its operations on the Thailand-Cambodia border were strictly under universal principles, and Thailand’s security readiness and capability were maintained for defense and situation control.
In the statement, Thai officials emphasized that the primary goals of the operations were the protection of the lives of its people and national security, with no intention to escalate the conflict or threaten civilians.
As the situation in the border area arose from military capacity enhancement that affected the safety of the Thai people and critical infrastructure, Thailand was therefore compelled to implement countermeasures that were limited in scope, target-specific, and use force only as necessary to terminate the threat, the statement said. (Namibia Daily News / Xinhua)
