Cambodia raises annexation fears over Thai land seizures

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Cambodia raises annexation fears over Thai land seizures

Barricades, barbed wire and demolished homes show border dispute far from over

MARWAAN MACAN-MARKAR:https://asia.nikkei.com/politics/international-relations/thailand-cambodia-conflict/cambodia-raises-annexation-fears-over-thai-land-seizures

January 20, 2026 09:10 JST

CHOUK CHEY, Cambodia -- In this rural corner of western Cambodia, the scars of the country's border war with neighboring Thailand show the damage wrought by Bangkok's heavy artillery and fighter jets: craters on a gravel road here, a bombed out cattle shed there and wooden houses on stilts with blown