Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet told Reuters Thai forces have not withdrawn from Cambodian territory after fighting last year and a US-brokered peace accord https://t.co/MGmV6fVNhT
Remember this guy? Guntouch “Gun” Pongpaiboonwet.
A few months ago, he was stopped by Thai authorities after calling for septic trucks to spray waste on Cambodians at the border. Now he is circulating images of himself holding torn Cambodian soldier patches and presenting them as a joke.
In the middle of an active conflict, this is deeply disrespectful toward Cambodian soldiers who have been killed. It inflames anger and contributes to further escalation.
Two civilians were injured as Thai shelling struck civilian areas in Koun Trey village in O Chrov district, Banteay Meanchey Province, close to the National Road 5.
Photos from Pho Sorphorn
21,10, 2025, armed Thai soldiers used machinery to demolish the houses of Cambodian civilians that they had previously surrounded and concealed near Chork Chey Village, O Bei Choan Commune, Ou Chrov District, Banteay Meanchey Province. This act by the Thai soldiers has made it
🇰🇭🇹🇭 Caught on Cambodia’s Front Line
As Cambodia and Thailand traded jabs at the U.N. General Assembly in New York this week, I was on the border of the land that lies between the two countries.
A barbed wire fence now cuts across Prey Chan Village, sealing off Cambodian homes and farmland behind boundaries unilaterally imposed by the Thai military.
Behind it lie the houses of six villagers who right now can’t return home. One grandmother wept as she watched the road to what used to be her farmland being laid with compacted sand by Thai construction workers.
“Every day I look at my home and wonder if we will ever step inside again,” Hul Mliss said. “Every day it feels like there is less and less chance of that happening.”
Meanwhile, her 3-year-old granddaughter played in the monsoon-beaten mud-plains by the open-air hammocks on which her family sleeps at night, yards from their barricaded home. The house’s blue rooftop jutted out of the foliage in the glaring mid-afternoon sun, trapped behind newly demarcated boundaries set up by the Thai military weeks ago.
The Thai–Cambodia conflict has received little global media attention, but the human ramifications run deep. I am one of the only foreign journalists to have visited the affected areas in Cambodia, since most news organizations are in Bangkok and the borders are shut.
Opinion by Michael Alfaro continues below.
Michael Barry Alfaro is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and journalist. His frontline coverage has gained global attention, featured in outlets like The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and the UK’s Daily Mail. Recognized as one of America’s top political consultants and fundraisers, Alfaro has raised millions for Newsmax and served as a political consultant to President Donald J. Trump.
"The struggle will continue long after the crisis is out of the headlines." says Dr. Will Parks, UNICEF Cambodia Representative.
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