QUOTE (TDscorpion @ Jul 8 2004, 01:41 PM)
Coast guards in southern Kien Giang province have caught a pirate ship which was using weapons to rob Vietnamese fishermen in 2.5 sea miles off the coast of Phu Quoc island, Kien Giang province.
The guards arrested one pirate, named Khun Thia, born in 1981. Initial investigations showed the ship originated from Cambodia and often robbed fishing ships in the area.
Authorised units are now searching for two other pirates, who fell into the sea during the chase by the coast guards, for further questioning.
After the investigation, Khun Thia will be handed over to Cambodian authorities. (VNA
===================================================
Does anyone here make connection between these two incidents:
QUOTE
Three Khmer fishermen were fishing in the Cambodian territorial sea when the Vietnamese marines open fired and killed two of the three. On top of it, the Viets caught the last one who managed not to get killed by the Viet bullets.
The Cambodian authorities have reported that this savage act of the Viets marks the on-going atrocities of shooting and abducting the Khmer fisherpeople at sea.
This is outrageous, Khmer folks! Enough is enough. When the numerous Viet immigrants stream into Cambodia, we say nothing. When only a few of our Cambodian people migrate to their side, the Vietnamese authorities abuse and deport our people back across the border to Cambodia.
It is also not a secret that the Vietnamese fishermen have violated our territorial sea, exploiting our food sources. However, the Cambodian authorities only choose to detain those Viet criminals and return them safely back to their country of Vietnam.
The criminal Viets have taken over our ancestral sea and islands. We can only have access to a small body of sea within our official geographical boundary. However, the meanspirited Viets choose to be time and time again malicious towards the Khmer people. The Viet marines continue to shoot the Khmer fishermen dead in the Cambodian territorial sea.