🇰🇭🇹🇭 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.
LOUDER AND LOUDER 📢🇰🇭
We, as Cambodians, come from a small country. We’re not asking for sympathy, nor are we asking for favors, only for the truth. The facts. The real story to be seen and heard.
We’re not here to convince you to take sides. All we ask is that you look deeper. Search beyond the headlines. Don’t let popularity silence justice.
Truth doesn’t need a million followers - it just needs to be told.
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🛑 Stop the lies. Start the truth.
In times of tension, truth becomes a target. Thai media is drowning facts in noise, shifting blame while the people suffer. Cambodia doesn’t want conflict, we want peace.
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So far,
- We need justice for our Preah Vihear Temple @UNESCO which some parts were destroyed by Thailand forces
- and now the ceasefire stopped since last night but now that side starting a digital war playing as victim 🤦♂️
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#ExposeThailandLies
When the world turns a blind eye to the destruction of temples and the loss of innocent lives, it isn’t just Cambodia that suffers—we all lose something sacred.
Stand for truth. Demand justice.
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