INVITATION TO JOURNALISTS: Please join us on Friday, January 9 at 3:00 p.m. Bangkok (GMT +7) for a virtual press briefing with Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Michael George DeSombre. Assistant Secretary DeSombre will discuss the ceasefire between Cambodia and Thailand and the implementation of the Kuala Lumpur Peace Accords. The speaker will take questions from participating journalists.
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US military intervention in Venezuela violates the country’s sovereignty and the UN charter, while damaging the foundations of international security, making every country less safe.
– @UNHumanRights chief @volker_turk.
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@noansereiboth The latest agression that Thailand unleashed on Cambodia shows how much they hate Cambodia. Thailand like Siam in the past is a great threat to Cambodia’s sovereignty and security.
@chaktomukINS In the late 90s, no one took lost items in Siem Reap. Singapore is not as safe as you might think. There were many cases of shop owners distorting money from customers in Singapore.
Russia accused Ukraine of trying to attack President Vladimir Putin's residence in northern Russia, although it provided no evidence to back up an assertion that Kyiv dismissed as baseless and designed to undermine peace negotiations https://t.co/oaIVguRLIC
Steve Hyde has lived and worked in Cambodia for more than 30 years and has held Cambodian citizenship for a long time. He is also my friend, so I’m not sharing this as a detached observer. He recorded this video from near the border because, as he says, he cannot leave, and because he wants people outside Cambodia to understand what life feels like on the ground right now. In his words, he is “deep inside Cambodian territory,” waking up to “heavy artillery, F-16 bomb drops by four or five in the morning.” He talks about more than 600,000 displaced people, “the poorest of the poor,” with families sleeping in temples and in rice fields as the bombing continues.
You do not have to agree with every word or every ask he makes. I don’t. But I trust Steve’s account of what he’s seeing and doing, and I think it deserves to be heard. Whatever anyone thinks about the politics, civilians are being pushed out of their homes at scale, and the human cost keeps growing while the arguments and blame-trading continue.
Battambang’s governor says Thailand launched bombs from fighter jets in his province over 100 km from the border, yet Thailand claims Cambodia invaded them. It’s heartbreaking.