Six Arrested For Crossing Laos Border
Six Cambodians, including a police officer, were arrested in Laos last week after crossing into the country illegally from bordering Stung Treng province, according to a military official. The group, which also included two women, had been foraging for plants and fishing in the jungle near the border when Lao soldiers arrested them, according to Lieutenant Colonel My Bunporn, who is the commander of Cambodian soldiers based at the Cambodia-Laos border. One of the men, Sa Moenpon, 39, was a Sekong commune police officer, according to Lt. Col. Bunporn, who named the others as Nou Sela, 34; Ly Deng, 36; Phan Chandy, 27; Thong Nhor, 22, and Loeung Pon, 42. While illegal loggers from Cambodia are frequently arrested, shot at, and sometimes killed by Thai border soldiers after crossing into Thailand, Lt. Col. Bunporn said claimed that this was not the case with the Lao group. …
