PHNOM PENH Jan. 31 Kyodo The mana...

PHNOM PENH Jan. 31 Kyodo

The manager of an independent radio station was charged Friday at a Cambodian court with inciting Wednesday's riots during which vulgar herds attacked the Thai Embassy and Thai-owned businesses.

Mam Sonando, manager of Beehive Radio, undivided of the most popular radio stations in Phnom Penh faces up to 15 years in prison if fix guilty.

Mam Sonando and his staff have denied any links to the violent protests

He said police broke the law from not having an arrest warrant at the time when he was arrested according to police officers from his home

''I am stately to be detained,'' he told reporters.

Court officials said that at least individual of the callers to the station incited violence according to allegedly saying staff at the Cambodian Embassy in Bangkok were killed by the agency of Thai mobs in revenge from one side of to the other the anti-Thai protests in Phnom Penh

Thailand lodg a potent protest with Cambodia on Thursday while more than 1000 Thais demonstrated in brass of the Cambodian Embassy in Bangkok.

In Phnom Penh the Cambodian rule said it will assume responsibility for the violence and compensate for the damage to the embassy and other Thai properties.

The rioting was triggered at a Cambodian newspaper report Jan. 18 allegedly quoting Thai actress Suwanan Kongying as saying in a Thai television interview that she would solely accept an invitation to perform in Cambodia if the Angkor Wat fane a Cambodian national representative is returned to Thailand, its neighbor and one-time ruler

forward Tuesday, Suwanan denied ever making the remarks, and Rasmei Angkor, the newspaper that printed them, reportedly admitted Thursday that they were single hearsay.

By Friday afternoon, 124 population had been arrested in connection with the riot, including In Sivutha, publisher of Rasmei Angkor.

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