About 100
tanks and 40 eight- and six-wheel APC arrived in Sihanoukville port (photo : KIMedia)
Scores of
tanks and armoured personnel carriers arrived at the port in Sihanoukville
yesterday, marking one of the biggest shipments of military vehicles in recent
history.
A source in
Preah Sihanouk province who asked not to be named told the Post that the ship
in question arrived yesterday morning, with “some 100 tanks and about 40 eight-
and six-wheel amoured personnel carriers,” he said.
Last night,
Sihanoukville Autonomous Port director Lou Kim Chhun confirmed the shipment,
but declined to comment on numbers or countries of origin, saying: “For the
details I think you can ask customs officials.”
In September
2010, in the middle of a border dispute with Thailand, Cambodia purchased 94
tanks from an Eastern European country widely thought to be Ukraine. The same
year, China donated some 250 vehicles to the Cambodian military.
Defense
officials could be reached for comment.
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