"The flare-up between Thai and Cambodian troops on Wednesday occurred two days after a Thai soldier lost a foot to a land mine while patrolling the frontier. The Thai government has accused Cambodia of planting fresh landmines in the region an accusation Phnom Penh denies. Bangkok also announced that it was suspending honoring the terms of a truce both sides agreed to at the end of July."
"The truce deal called the Kuala Lumpur Peace Accords was signed by both sides on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in Malaysia in October, in the presence of US President Donald Trump. Trump had earlier put pressure on Thailand and Cambodia by threatening to delay trade talks with them over US tariffs unless they agreed to stop fighting. The tenuous agreement aside, tensions remained high."
Fresh shooting broke out along the contested Thailand-Cambodia border after a flare-up between troops, two days after a Thai soldier lost a foot to a land mine while patrolling the frontier. Thailand accuses Cambodia of planting fresh landmines, which Cambodia denies. Bangkok suspended honoring the terms of a truce agreed at the end of July. An earlier ceasefire brokered by Malaysia, China and the United States delivered only a shaky peace after five days of cross-border combat that killed at least 48 people and displaced about 300,000 civilians. The Kuala Lumpur Peace Accords did not lay out a path to resolve the territorial dispute and were shaped largely by external interests without substantive measures to settle underlying disagreements.
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