Defying treaties
Re: "Phone has clips of mines", (BP, Aug 21).
Wherever the true border between Thailand and Cambodia lies pales into insignificance when considering Cambodia's alleged use of land mines in the current dispute between the two countries.
Cambodia, more than any other country in the region, knows first-hand the devastating consequences of using land mines as a weapon of war.
When my wife and I first visited Angkor Wat more than 20 years ago, we were shattered and horrified at the sight of so many limbless ex-soldiers and civilians begging on the streets of Siem Reap.
One image in particular, of a young legless teenage boy propelling himself around the streets on a skateboard, is indelibly burned into my memory.
If you visit Angkor today, you are almost sure to come across one of the "amputee" orchestras playing traditional Cambodian music as you approach the temples in Angkor Thom. The musicians sit legless on straw mats, earning a livelihood the only way they now can.
The Cambodian government deserves international condemnation for its unconscionable disregard for the Ottawa Treaty.
David Brown
Stop money policing
Re: "Thailand tightens mobile banking transfer limits", (Business, Aug 20).
This obviously insane set of regulations is based upon the premise that the government should govern how citizens can spend their money.
Here we have the government telling me and countless others that we are not fit to spend money in any manner we please.
How dare they? It is my money!
Realistically, the smokescreen about protecting the vulnerable is absurd.
Apparently, they are succumbing to the influence of globalists who seek to establish digital control of everyone, and this is their big toe dipping into Thai waters rather boldly in an effort to gauge the pushback. By tying these measures to immigration and thereby to foreigners, they clearly hope to mitigate resistance.
No institution has ever been capable of shooting itself in the foot better than this government.
Michael Setter
Hamas gets a pass
Re: "Answering my criticism about the war in Gaza", (Opinion, Aug 19).
Nicholas Kristof seems to believe that if Israel does not surrender to a genocidal jihadist group which has vowed to murder every single Jew in Israel, it is in the wrong. And he offers no alternative.
He refers to the intentional murder of 1,200 civilians by Hamas as a "war crime", while failing to condemn the mainstream media for systematically describing unintentional civilian deaths in Gaza as no less than "genocide".
Even worse, he equates worldwide attacks against Jews with the death of "children" in Gaza. Certain Arab media are promoting the anti-Semitic trope that Jews are baby killers, and the same media, countries and Red Cross which facilitated the annihilation of European Jewry eagerly take part. Again.
The well-orchestrated "genocide" and "they kill children" campaign, promoted by Al Jazeera and media cohorts such as the BBC, is similar in scope and intent to the worldwide campaign by anti-Semites such as Goebbels.
The "genocide" and "they kill children" campaign was thought up well before Oct 7. Unfortunately, Mr Kristof is apparently not lucid enough to understand the media landscape of which he is part.
Frank Scimone
