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More than fractional a cardinal radical successful Cambodia person been displaced from their homes by 2 weeks of deadly borderline clashes with neighbouring Thailand, Phnom Penh's Interior Ministry said connected Sunday (December 21, 2025).
"At present, much than fractional a cardinal Cambodian people, including women and children, are suffering terrible hardship owed to forced displacement from their homes and schools to flight artillery shells, rockets, and aerial bombardments carried retired by Thailand's F-16 aircraft," the Interior Ministry said successful a statement, giving the full fig of radical evacuated arsenic 518,611.
Around 400,000 radical person been displaced successful Thailand owed to the reignited borderline conflict, Bangkok has said.
The renewed warring betwixt the Southeast Asian neighbours this month, including with tanks, drones and artillery, has killed astatine slightest 22 radical successful Thailand and 19 successful Cambodia, according to officials.
The struggle stems from a territorial quality implicit the colonial-era demarcation of their 800-kilometre (500-mile) borderline and a smattering of past temple ruins situated connected the frontier.
Each broadside has blamed the different for instigating the caller warring and traded accusations of attacks connected civilians, aft 5 days of clashes successful July killed dozens.
China, the European Union, the United States, the ASEAN determination bloc seat Malaysia and the United Nations person each called for a ceasefire.
Foreign ministers of ASEAN nations, including Cambodia and Thailand, are acceptable to conscionable connected Monday successful Kuala Lumpur wherever they volition sermon the conflict.
