The Thai leader warns of clashes with Cambodia can “move towards war” star-news.press/wp

Thailand’s leader warned that the clashes between Thailand and Cambodia, which killed at least 16 people and were displaced tens of thousands in both countries, could “move towards war.”

Acting Prime Minister Fottham and Yuhayahay added that the fighting now included heavy weapons and spread to 12 sites along the border.

Thailand Cambodia also accused the shooting of civilian areas and evacuated all villages that are inside a rhino -diameter circle.

For its part, Cambodia accused Thailand of using cluster munitions. Staph munitions are blocked in most of the world due to their random effect on the civilian population. Thailand did not respond to allegations.

Meanwhile, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Reuters news agency that “there is no need” to mediate the third party in the conflict, even with the resumption of global leaders for an immediate ceasefire.

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who heads the Association of Southeast Asian countries, or ASEAN, offered earlier to facilitate talks between the two countries.

Anwar wrote on Facebook late on Thursday: “I welcome the positive signs and the desire that Bangkok and Bennum showed him to look at this path forward,” Anwar wrote on Facebook late on Thursday.

But a spokesman for the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nicorendij Palackoura, told Reuters that the situation should be resolved through bilateral means, adding that Bennah should stop his offensive moves.

“I don’t think we need any mediation from a third country so far,” Nicorendig said.

The comments came when both countries updated the fighting of the fighting.

Thailand said that 14 civilians and soldiers were killed in the fighting, while the provincial authorities in Cambodia said at least one civilian in Audiane Menchi.

The United States also called for “an immediate stopping of hostility, protecting civilians and a peaceful solution to the conflict.”

“We are very concerned about the escalating violence along the borders of Thailand Cambodia, and their grief from reports of harm to civilians,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Tommy Begut told a regular press conference.

China, which has political and strategic relations with Cambodia and Thailand, said it is “very concerned” with the conflict and hopes to solve issues through dialogue and consultation.

He also called on Australia, the European Union and France to peace.

The United Nations Security Council is expected to meet on Friday due to the conflict.

In a letter to the council on Thursday, the Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Manit urged to interfere in “stopping the aggression of Thailand”.

Both Thailand and Cambodia were accused of launching the first shots on Thursday.

Thailand claims that the clash began with the deployment of drones in Cambodia to conduct monitoring of the Thai forces near the border.

Cambodia says that Thai soldiers started the conflict when they violated a previous agreement by applying to the Khmer-Hindo Temple near the border.

The dispute between the two countries dates back more than a hundred years, when the borders of the two countries were drawn after the French occupation of Cambodia.

There were intermittent clashes over the years that witnessed soldiers and civilians killed on both sides.

Recent tensions increased in May after the Kambudi soldier was killed in a clash. This bilateral relationship has decreased with the lowest point in more than a decade.

In a sports complex that was converted into a evacuation center in Surin County in Thailand, they said to the evacuation – many of them children and the elderly – they are still vibrating due to the missile and artillery attacks they witnessed on Thursday.

They told the elderly who lived the bombing during the Civil Civil War in the eighties of the last century that the last fighting was the worst they suffered.

Joe Vasuan, from the Vanum Dong Rak area, said that she and her grandchildren “waited for a long time” before they finally moved to the evacuation center. She added that she moved further this time compared to the last evacuation.

Elsewhere, a small group of the elderly gathered around the entrance to a school about 10 km (6.2 miles) from the border.

All the homes around them were deserted. Men remain returning to guard their homes and livestock, while all women and children were evacuated.

They were near an improvised shelter, constructed last month of sections of concrete tubes and strengthening them with sand bags and rows of sand -filled tires.

Artillery flourished across this small village throughout the morning, and Cambodian missile attacks on Thursday disturbed men.

The school was also used by Thai soldiers, but they do not want to be photographed – and they do not want to identify the school.

The roads were empty, regardless of the military truck soldiers. Passing through the village after the village, no one could be seen.

Life has stopped along this border area due to a few ancient temples and some unimportant strips of forest lands.

Additional reports by Lulu Lau in Surin