By Thai Newsroom Reporters
EIGHTEEN CAMBODIAN prisoners of war who recently surrendered to the Thai army in northeastern Thailand are being returned to their home country via a border pass tomorrow (Aug.1), according to an army source.
The 18 Cambodian army troops for whom food and lodging have been provided on humanitarian basis during their detention by Thailand’s Second Army Region will be promptly repatriated via Chong Jom border pass in Karbchoeng district of Surin tomorrow.
The Cambodian troops had engaged in fighting with Thai army troops in a disputed border area of Kantharalak district of Sisaket until they opted out by laying down their weapons and being brought to an undisclosed Thai army base for detention.
The prompt repatriation of those prisoners of war is being done by the Thai army under the Geneva Convention of 1949.
Thailand has reconfirmed that Thai army and air force units had only launched counterattacks at the intruding Cambodian forces along the disputed border and effectively spared all civilian targets inside Cambodia whereas rockets and artillery shells had been fired across the border from Cambodia and landed at civilian targets in Thailand including a hospital, a convenience store and residential areas, inflicting many fatalities and injuries among Thai villagers about 138,000 of whom had been evacuated from embattled zones at the border to safety spots in the interior of the northeastern Thai provinces, namely Ubon Ratchathani, Buriram, Sisaket and Surin.
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Top and Front Page: Some of the Cambodian prisoners of war being sent back to their country tomorrow, Aug. 1, 2025. Photo: Amarin TV
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