The winds of change are sweeping across Sa Kaeo, as the Royal Thai Army has decisively shut the gates at all Thai-Cambodian border crossings. This stringent move, ordered by the RTA chiefs, echoes a tale of sovereignty breaches, escalating tensions, and a spike in cross-border crime that could rival any dramatized saga of international relations. On June 23, Lieutenant General Amorn Boonsuya, Commander of the 1st Army Area, issued an emergency order halting the passage of vehicles and travelers—both Thai and foreign—across the Sa Kaeo border, with an immediacy that left no room for dithering. The heart of this prohibitive measure stems from alarming reports of Cambodian troops allegedly stretching their shadow onto Thai soil, erecting strongholds, rearranging terrain, and staging audacious symbolic protests near the 2nd Army Region. It’s a soap opera of military posturing that has stoked fears for safety and destabilized the region. The curtain rose on…
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