02/09/2025
Kea
forces used in the July 24–28, 2025 border fighting with Cambodia
• F-16 airstrikes on Cambodian positions
• Armed drones deployed alongside manned airstrikes
• Heavy artillery and rocket artillery (cross-border shelling/rocket fire)
• Cluster munitions: Human rights groups condemned their use, especially near populated areas.
• White phosphorus munitions: Rights groups warned of severe risks to civilians if used near people or structures.
After ceasefire:
• Slingshots
• Barbed wire installations: Set up in multiple areas. Cambodian authorities and villagers claimed the installations intruded into Cambodian territory, including nearly 20 Cambodian homes in Banteay Meanchey Province, bordering Thailand’s Sa Kaeo Province.
• Sonic weapons emitting loud sound waves that may cause nausea, fainting, or hearing loss.
• Recently, groups of Thai civilians trucked and transported human waste to the Cambodian border in an attempt to spray it against Cambodian villagers protesting the loss of their homes to Thailand.
The aggressive acts by Thai troops against Cambodia in 2025 have made relations between the two countries the worst in history. Never before have Cambodians—and now even the younger generation and children—harbored such hatred toward neighboring Thailand, seeing themselves as victims of Thai aggression against their borders, temples, and homes.
