BANGKOK/PHNOM PENH — Thailand says its fighter jets struck Cambodia in an attempt to cripple its military capability, as a re-eruption of border hostilities derailed a fragile ceasefire brokered by US President Donald Trump.
Each side blames the other for starting clashes that broke out overnight and intensified before dawn and spread to several locations, with one Thai soldier and four Cambodian civilians killed, according to officials.
Cambodia accuses Thailand of “inhumane and brutal acts” of aggression, stressing it has not retaliated, while Bangkok said it carried out air strikes on military targets after its neighbor mobilized heavy weaponry and repositioned combat units.
“The objective of the army is to cripple Cambodia’s military capability for a long time to come, for the safety of our children and grandchildren,” Thai army chief of staff General Chaipruak Doungprapat says, according to the military.
The fighting was the fiercest since a five-day exchange of rockets and heavy artillery in July that marked their heaviest clashes in recent history, when at least 48 people were killed and 300,000 displaced, before Trump intervened to broker a ceasefire.
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