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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Kate Lamb

‘Wailing ghosts through loudspeakers’: Cambodia accuses Thailand of psychological warfare along border

Cambodian forces and villagers stand behind a barbed wire fence opposite Thai officials stationed along the Thai-Cambodian border at Ban Nong Ya Kaeo in Sa Kaeo province, Thailand, 19 September 2025. T
The Thai-Cambodian border. Cambodia has accused Thailand of psychological warfare along a disputed border. Photograph: Narong Sangnak/EPA

Cambodia’s former leader Hun Sen has complained about Thailand broadcasting ghost-like sounds across a disputed border, while the country’s human rights commission has accused its neighbour of engaging in psychological warfare, despite both countries agreeing to a ceasefire in July.

Posting on Facebook, Hun Sen, 73, who now serves as Cambodia’s powerful senate president, said Cambodia’s human rights commission had complained to the United Nations about the “intense, high-pitched noises”.

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