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Cambodia Says Arrests 20 After Anti-Thai Riots

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— PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodian military police have arrested at least 20 anti-Thai protesters following a night of nationalist rioting in the capital, Phnom Penh's governor said Thursday. "As far as I know, 20 protesters have been arrested," Chea Sophara told Reuters. "I could not believe or understand why the incident happened. They must have had incitors behind them."

"I couldn't believe they burned down not only the hotels but also the mobile phone company (owned by family of Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra)," he said, adding that the number of arrests might have risen as police and military beefed up security in the rubble-strewn streets.

Earlier, Thai military aircraft evacuated more than 500 terrified citizens after mobs of flag-waving Cambodian students went on the rampage, torching first the Thai embassy and then any businesses with a Thai connection, however tenuous.

The violence has sparked a diplomatic storm, with Thailand recalling its ambassador, cutting economic and technical cooperation and closing its land border to Cambodians.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen blamed small group of extremists and said the violence had hurt relations with Thailand.


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A Cambodian military policeman walks past a damaged car on the grounds of the Thai embassy in Phnom Penh January 30, 2003. Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej stepped in to calm rising anti-Cambodian sentiment in Bangkok after hundreds of Thais were airlifted out of Phnom Penh following riots there. Photo by Chor Sokunthea/Reuters

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