Overview
- In interviews during a Washington visit, Hun Manet alleged Thai forces remain inside Cambodian territory and have used shipping containers and barbed wire, preventing roughly 80,000 people from returning home.
- Thailand denies any occupation and says troop placements are de-escalation positions within its own territory.
- Cambodia is urging activation of the Joint Boundary Commission to begin technical demarcation after delays tied to Thailand’s February 8 election.
- The December 27 ceasefire has largely held but remains fragile, with the United States and China engaged through new and ongoing mediation tracks.
- Last year’s clashes were the worst in more than a decade, killing 149 people, displacing hundreds of thousands, closing the land border, and throttling trade as nearly one million Cambodian migrant workers returned.