BANGKOK, Nov 10 — Thailand’s fragile peace deal with Cambodia is hanging by a thread after two Thai soldiers were seriously injured in a landmine explosion near the border, prompting Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul to suspend the agreement barely a month after it was signed, Bloomberg reported.
The soldiers were on routine patrol in Thailand’s Si Sa Ket province today when they stepped on what the army suspects were newly planted mines.
It was the seventh explosion in four months, following a series of blasts in July that triggered the deadliest clashes between the two neighbours in years.
“Everything we have been doing until now will be stopped until there is more clarity,” Anutin told reporters, according to Bloomberg.
“What happened shows that the hostility hasn’t decreased as we thought it would. So we can’t proceed any further from here.”
The October peace deal, under chairmanship of Asean, was hailed as a breakthrough aimed at restoring stability and improving military cooperation.
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