Kanthararom, Thailand: whereas Cambodia and Thailand exchanged lethal strikes, fleeing civilians on each side describing their cross -border neighbors akin to “brothers” and “buddies”, exchanging peace requests towards the background of the artilleries.
The price range of the victims of three days of fight has risen to 33, the civilian civilians, after an extended -standing border dispute has strongly intensified in fight carried out with jets, artillery, tanks and earth troops.
“The relationships had been good, we had been like brothers,” stated Sai Boonrod, 56 years outdated, one of many lots of of Thais sheltered in a temple within the metropolis of Kanthararom after having evacuated the home of the border village.
“But now issues may have modified,” he stated to AFP. “I simply need the preventing to finish up with the ability to return to being once more as brothers.”
In addition to the Cambodian border, 150 km from the Sai non permanent home, the same scene takes place: lots of of evacuated evacuated in improvised curtains on a temple web site, surrounded by emergency meals rations and their garments filled with packaging.
“We are shut, we need to be buddies,” stated a 50 -year -old AFP, talking on situation of anonymity within the refuge of the Temple of Phumi Bak Thkav.
“But they’re attacking us. We are fleeing from homes due to them.”
The tensions are lengthy enjoyable on the border of 800 km shared by the international locations, combed with historical temple websites claimed by each nations.
