(28 Jul 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Srei Snam district, Siem Reap, Cambodia – 28 July 2025
1. Entrance to pagoda in Srei Snam district, Siem Reap, which has transformed into a camp for displaced people
2. Wide of woman outside tent
3. Various of young man sitting on tractor, the vehicle he used to evacuate his family from home
4. Wide of temple with tent in front
5. Wide of washing on line
6. Wide of police
7. Wide of government minister walking through camp
8. Wide of pagoda with children playing
9. Various of tents outside pagoda
10. Wide of displaced person, Sok Tha, looking at phone
11. Close of phone
12. SOUNDBITE (Khmer) Sok Tha, displaced person:
“I am keen to see the willingness of our government for negotiations. It’s a horrible situation now, the sound of artillery shells is heard all the time. That is why I really want to see peace negotiated, so I can go back home.”
13. Various of displaced people
STORYLINE:
As Thai and Cambodian leaders meet in Malaysia on Monday to discuss a possible ceasefire in their deadly ongoing border conflict, tens of thousands of displaced villagers are sitting it out in camps on both sides of the frontier, waiting to hear if they can go home.
More than 139,000 people in Thailand have evacuated to safe locations and over 79,000 people fled from three Cambodian provinces. Many border villages are mostly deserted, with many schools and hospitals shut.
In one camp, in Srei Snam district in Cambodia’s Siem Reap province, evacuees continue to arrive, pitching improvised tents or finding space inside the walls of a pagoda.
78-year-old Sok Tha has been here since last Friday. He says he’s weary of war, having seen bloody conflict many times in the past few decades. He hopes the talks will bring a solution.
“I am keen to see the willingness of our government for the negotiations. It’s a horrible situation now, the sound of artillery shells is heard all the time. That is why I really want to see peace negotiated, so I can go back home.”
The fighting flared Thursday after a land mine explosion along the border wounded five Thai soldiers. Both sides blamed each other for starting the clashes.
Both countries recalled their ambassadors and Thailand closed its border crossings with Cambodia, with an exception for migrant Cambodian workers returning home.
AP video shot by Anton L. Delgado
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