Thailand: Following a ceasefire with the majority of Cambodian refugees return home
Thailand: According to Touch Sokhak, a spokesperson for Cambodia’s Interior Ministry, 68.4% of the country’s evacuees from a recent border dispute with Thailand have so far returned home.
According to Sokhak, around 444,179 of the 649,023 Cambodian refugees had made their way back to their homes.At a press conference, he said that around 204,844 individuals, including 108,466 women and 66,892 children, were still living in displacement camps.
Following three weeks of military combat that resulted in losses on both sides, Cambodia and Thailand agreed to an immediate truce on December 27, 2025, according to the Xinhua news agency.
According to a news statement from Cambodia’s State Secretariat of boundary Affairs, Cambodia re-proposed to Thailand on Monday to have a special meeting on boundary delineation in the country’s Siem Reap region during the second or third week of January.
In a Note Verbale dated January 5, 2026, the Cambodian side once again asked the Thai side to call a special meeting of the Cambodia-Thailand Joint Boundary Commission in Siem Reap province during the second or third week of January 2026.
According to the press release, the rescheduled meeting will cover the survey and demarcation work as well as the problem of Thai armed personnel breaching Cambodia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
The Thai side postponed Cambodia’s first request for the meeting in the first week of January 2026 at Siem Reap province, citing the continued presence of landmines in border regions and the need to wait for internal processes. This led to the proposal for a new meeting.
On December 27, 2025, Thailand and Cambodia reached an agreement to put an end to weeks of intense border skirmishes, the heaviest combat between the Southeast Asian nations in years, which included artillery barrages, rocket fire exchanges, and fighter jet raids.
After 20 days of battle that left at least 101 dead and over half a million homeless on both sides, Thai Defense Minister Natthaphon Nakrphanit and his Cambodian colleague Tea Seiha signed the accord.