'Cheap shots': Cambodia slams Thailand for ‘blatant ceasefire violations’ including border patrols and slingshot attacks

Illustration shows a young Thai soldier firing a slingshot, shared on Facebook by Cambodian Senate President Hun Sen, against a backdrop of the Cambodian flag and barbed-wire fencing that was put up by the Thai army on Cambodian territory post-ceasefire. -- Khmer Times illustration

PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times): Amid renewed border tensions, Cambodia rejects landmine accusations and accuses Bangkok of deliberate provocations such as illegal troop movements, unlawful detention of 18 captured soldiers, and resorting to slingshots to provoke Cambodian troops.

While the Cambodia-Thailand ceasefire was observed over the weekend, resulting in a calm border, Thailand continued to threaten the armistice with a series of provocations, including by lobbing at Cambodia the same unfounded landmine accusation that had triggered the recent five-day deadly armed conflict between the two neighbours.