Thailand Releases 18 Cambodian POWs as Border Ceasefire Holds
Cambodian soldiers gesture to well-wishers from a bus after their release in Cambodia’s Pailin province on Dec. 31.
Source: AFP/Getty ImagesThailand on Wednesday repatriated 18 Cambodian soldiers captured in July, one of the few signs of progress toward defusing tensions between the neighbors since fighting erupted along their shared border earlier this year.
“Thailand hopes that Cambodia will reciprocate this goodwill through its concrete actions to promote sustained peace between the two countries,” Thailand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.