‘We were like siblings’: Border civilians plead for truce as Cambodia-Thailand conflict escalates

‘We were like siblings’: Border civilians plead for truce as Cambodia-Thailand conflict escalates

As deadly artillery exchanges erupt along the Cambodia-Thailand border, civilians on both sides call for peace and unity, recalling past friendships now fractured by conflict that has claimed 33 lives and displaced over 170,000.

People who fled their homes near the border between Cambodia and Thailand, gather at a pagoda in Oddar Meanchey province on July 26, 2025. AFP