Thailand accuses Cambodia of violating hours-old ceasefire
Thailand accused Cambodia of “deliberately” cease -fire violation, the two countries decided to end the conflicts of border that killed at least 33 people on Monday and displaced thousands of people.
A shaky start for the ceasefire, which aims to end the five -day bombardment and rocket attacks along its shared boundaries.
The Thai army says that after midnight, but continued to buy gunfire by Cambodia “more than one place”.
However, the Cambodian Ministry of Defense, AFP News Agency, the ceasefire has started at midnight since the beginning of the two sides “armed conflicts”, he said.
Despite the charges, meetings between local commanders from both sides took place as part of the ceasefire agreement on Tuesday. They agreed to stop the shot and stop the movement of the troops on the front. They will also allow each other to collect their dead.
The tensions between the centuries -old controversial borders between the South East Asian countries increased in May, when a Cambodian troops were killed in the conflict.
In a land mine explosion, five Thai soldiers became injured last week into a full -scale conflict. Thailand closed some of the border crossings, expelled the ambassador of Cambodia, and remembered him from Phnom Penh.
After the two sides changed gunfire in the early hours last Thursday, Cambodia fired more than one rocket fired in Thailand and killed several civilians.
In the coming days, more civilians were killed on both sides and tens of thousands of people were evacuated to the shelter.
Intense fire changes between the two armies launched more air strikes in Thai Cambodian positions and continued until midnight on Monday, the last date for the cease -fire.
However, on Tuesday morning, before claiming that Thailand had been violated by the ceasefire, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet said that “façade lines have been alleviated” since midnight.
Within the scope of the ceasefire agreement, both sides aim to withdraw their armies and accept a kind of independent monitoring to prevent further conflict.
Hun Manet and his Thai colleague Phumtham Wechayachai met at a meeting by leader Anwar Ibrahim in Malaysia on Monday.
The remaining Cambodia was forcing for a ceasefire, and his leader said, “A very good meeting.”
Initially reluctant to negotiate, Thailand accepted negotiations after threatening US President Donald Trump to stop the negotiations on tariffs until Thailand and Cambodia stopped fighting.
The relations between Thailand and Cambodia worsened in 2008, when Cambodia tried to record the 11th century temple in the controversial region as the UNESCO World Heritage Site – a heated protest from Thailand.
Occasionally, there were occasional clashes that saw that the soldiers and civilians have been killed on both sides over the years.
As tensions increased in May, the relationship between the two countries has reached the lowest point for more than decade.
In the last two months, both countries have brought each other border restrictions. Cambodia banned imports such as fruits and vegetables from Thailand and stopped importing power and internet services.
Both countries have strengthened the existence of unity throughout the border in recent weeks.
