More than 100,000 people have been displaced in the deadliest conflict between the two nations in 14 years.
So based on the article it’s safe to assume Thailand is starting this?
It’s unclear who started it but this dispute has been going for a long time. It started a couple of weeks ago but mainly tit for tat, only in the past 2 days it escalated.
On and off conflict between the two countries for a while now. From what i know:
the land in dispute is Khmer land built an entire millenia ago under Suryavarman.
Thailand claims the lands were there due to drawn maps during 1904 french colonia indochina times. Cambodia claims the International Court of Justice lines in 1962, as about a decade ago, france pulled out of the region, and thailand moved in to occupy it.
to quickly summarize a lot, Thailand eventually obliged and ceded the temples to Cambodia. Cambodia went through the civil war. Thailand goes through a military coup, and expels a bunch of refugees into the region.
fast foward to 2008, globally wanted to turn the temples to a world heritage site. map draws borders around the site without giving posesion to a country, Thailand renegades on the plan but Cambodia continues.
Since 2008, there have been conflicts from both sides, and nations globally are trying not to exacerbate the issue.
Shit, thank you for the explanation.
