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Thailand suspends Trump-backed peace deal with Cambodia after landmine blasts

A landmine blast injured two Thai soldiers, prompting PM Anutin to suspend the fragile Trump-backed peace deal and halt prisoner releases

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Thai military personnel stand near the disputed border between Thailand and Cambodia. Photo: Reuters
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Thailand’s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has threatened to derail a fragile peace deal with Cambodia – signed just last month – after a landmine explosion injured two Thai soldiers near their shared border.

The soldiers stepped on what the Thai army suspects were newly laid mines while on routine patrol Monday in Si Sa Ket province. It was the seventh such blast in four months, following a wave of explosions in July that sparked the deadliest border clashes in years.

As a result, Thailand will suspend the terms of US President Donald Trump-backed Kuala Lumpur Peace Accord, which outline disarmament measures as part of efforts to normalise ties, Anutin said.
Thai soldiers injured by a landmine during a patrol near the Thai-Cambodia border are treated as they are to be transferred to a hospital on Monday. Photo: Royal Thai Army/AP
Thai soldiers injured by a landmine during a patrol near the Thai-Cambodia border are treated as they are to be transferred to a hospital on Monday. Photo: Royal Thai Army/AP

The country will also halt the release of 18 Cambodian soldiers in its custody – a move that had been set to begin November 21 under the peace terms.

“Everything we have been doing until now will be stopped until there is more clarity,” Anutin told reporters on Monday. “What happened shows that the hostility hasn’t decreased as we thought it would. So we can’t proceed any further from here.”

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