Thailand and Cambodia fight for the world’s ear over deadly border feud
While Cambodia takes its border grievances to Trump’s Board of Peace, Thailand rejects its ‘false’ claims and threatens a border wall
The two nations intermittently clashed over demarcation points along their 817km (508-mile) border from last July until December 27, when a second ceasefire was reached.
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The fighting killed 149 people and displaced hundreds of thousands on both sides, choking off billions of dollars in cross-border trade. The land border remains closed.
Although an uneasy truce has held for two months, both countries continue to portray the other as the aggressor in a dispute that stems from a colonial-era boundary drawn by the French that has been a source of periodic conflict for decades.
In a sign of the enduring damage done by the recent clashes, Bangkok has even floated plans to build a border wall. Trade worth several billion US dollars is unlikely to resume in the near term, while remittances from Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand have slowed to a trickle as nearly 1 million have returned home.
