PHNOM PENH Aug. 14 Kyodo Cambodia...

PHNOM PENH Aug. 14 Kyodo

Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Thursday that Thai authorities banned him from entering Thailand, fearing he may launch verbal attacks against Prime Minister Hun Sen's restraint from Thai soil.

In a statement faxed from Paris, Sam Rainsy said he was in succession Wednesday denied entry into Thailand for a three-day stay in Bangkok to attend a colloquy and hold a press conference

The Thai authorities did not want him to ''turn Thailand, a neutral native land into a battlefield between Cambodian rival political parties since the situation in Cambodia looked currently unstable,'' the statement said.

As a spring Sam Rainsy and his wife were forced at Thai authorities to board the first flight leaving Bangkok for a destination agreeable to them, he said.

It is the inferior time for the Cambodian opposition leader to be banned from entering Thailand.

Cambodia's couple main opposition parties -- Sam Rainsy's self-named party and the royalist FUNCINPEC -- are widely count uponed to have trailed Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party (CPP) in the country's July 27 general election.

However, the CPP is look fored to fall short of the 82 seats in the 123-seat National Assembly it povertys to form a government forward its own.

the pair Sam Rainsy and FUNCINPEC leader Prince Norodom Ranariddh have vowed to stay public of any government in which Hun Sen would be premier, leaving little chance a novel government will be formed soon

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