Thailand accuses Cambodia of violating hours-old ceasefire

Thailand Cambodia was accused of “intentionally” a violation of the ceasefire, on Monday, the two countries agreed to end the border clashes that killed at least 33 people and explained thousands.

It is a shaky start to the ceasefire, which was supposed to put an end to five days of bombing and missile attacks along the common border.

The Thai army says it stopped shooting after midnight, but he continued to get a shooting from the Cambodian side “in multiple locations” until this morning.

But the Cambodia Ministry of Defense told the news agency to Agence France -Presse that there were no “armed confrontations” between the two sides since it began a ceasefire in the middle of the night.

A meeting was postponed between local leaders who were part of the ceasefire agreement twice, and may not happen at all.

Tensions between Southeast Asian countries swollen on the disputed border a century in May when a Kambodi soldier was killed in a clash.

They escalated to a widespread struggle last week after five Thai soldiers were injured in a ground brown explosion. Thailand closed some border crossings, expelled the Cambodian Ambassador and summoned Bennah.

After the two sides exchanged fire early on Thursday, Cambodia fired several missiles to Thailand, killing many civilians.

More civilians died on both sides in the following days, and tens of thousands of shelters were evacuated.

The extensive exchanges of fire between the two armies continued until midnight on Monday, the deadline for the ceasefire, as Thailand fired more air strikes on the Cambodian sites.

But on Tuesday morning, before Thailand claimed that the ceasefire had been violated, the Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Manit said that “the front lines had been eased” since midnight.

Under the agreement, the two sides agreed to retract their armies and accept a kind of independent monitoring to prevent more clashes.

Hun Manit and his Thai counterpart Foumetham and Yuhayahayi met Monday in Malaysia at a driver meeting by its leader Anwar Ibrahim.

Cambodia was parked for a ceasefire and its leader described it as a very good meeting.

Thailand, who was initially hesitant to negotiate, agreed after US President Donald Trump threatened to stop talks about definitions until Thailand and Cambodia stopped fighting.

In fact, the argument between Thailand and Cambodia returns to more than a century, when the borders of the two countries were drawn after the French occupation of Cambodia.

Things became officially hostile in 2008, when Cambodia tried to register the eleventh century temple in the disputed region as a UNESCO World Heritage Site – a move that was met with a hot protest from Thailand.

Over the years there were intermittent clashes that witnessed the soldiers and civilians who were killed on both sides.

Recent tensions increased in May after the Kambudi soldier was killed in a clash. This bilateral relationship has decreased with the lowest point in more than a decade.

In the past two months, both countries have imposed restrictions on the border on each other. Cambodia banned imports from Thailand, such as fruits and vegetables, and stopped importing energy and Internet services.

Both countries also strengthened the presence of forces along the border in recent weeks.