Thai troop presence in civilian areas threatens cross-border ceasefire


Thailand’s military continues to occupy civilian areas in Cambodia, having barricaded some with barbed wire and ­shipping containers, posing a risk to a truce between the neighbours who clashed twice last year, the Cambodian foreign minister said.

Up to 4,000 Cambodian families are unable to return to homes along the disputed frontier because of the Thai incursions, Prak Sokhonn said, despite a ‌December agreement that halted weeks of fierce border clashes.

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