{"id":38516,"date":"2025-12-26T12:51:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T07:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=38516"},"modified":"2025-12-26T12:51:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T07:06:18","slug":"cambodia-says-thailand-escalated-strikes-during-border-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/cambodia-says-thailand-escalated-strikes-during-border-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambodia says Thailand escalated strikes during border talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Cambodia accused Thailand on Friday of intensifying its bombardment of disputed border areas, even as officials from the two countries attend a multi-day meeting aimed at negotiating an end to deadly clashes.<\/p>\n<p>The neighbours&#8217; long-standing border conflict reignited this month, shattering an earlier truce and killing more than 40 people, according to official counts. Around a million people have also been displaced.<\/p>\n<p>Cambodian and Thai officials were in their third day of talks at a border checkpoint on Friday, with defence ministers from both countries scheduled to meet on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>However, Cambodia&#8217;s defence ministry said Thailand&#8217;s military carried out a heavy bombardment of disputed border areas in Banteay Meanchey province Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From 6:08 am to 7:15 am, the Thai military deployed F-16 fighter jets to drop as many as 40 bombs, to intensify its bombardment in the area of Chok Chey village,&#8221; it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Thai media said Friday that Cambodian forces had launched heavy attacks overnight along the border in Sa Kaeo province, where several homes were damaged by shelling.<\/p>\n<p>The two countries blame each other for instigating the fresh fighting, which has spread to nearly every province along their border.<\/p>\n<p>Both countries also claim to have acted in self-defence and accuse the other of attacking civilians.<\/p>\n<p>The United States, China and Malaysia brokered a truce to end five days of deadly clashes in July, but the ceasefire was short-lived.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Friday, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet said on Facebook that he had spoken by phone with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the two discussed &#8220;ways to secure a ceasefire along the Cambodia-Thailand border&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict stems from a territorial dispute over the colonial-era demarcation of their 800-kilometre (500-mile) frontier and a collection of temple ruins situated there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cambodia accused Thailand on Friday of intensifying its bombardment of disputed border areas, even as officials from the two countries attend a multi-day meeting aimed at negotiating an end to deadly clashes. The neighbours&#8217; long-standing border conflict reignited this month, shattering an earlier truce and killing more than 40 people, according to official counts. Around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38517,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38516\/revisions\/38517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}