{"id":73072,"date":"2025-07-26T01:50:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/25\/at-least-here-i-cant-hear-the-blasts-thai-evacuees-flee-cambodian-border-clashes"},"modified":"2025-07-26T01:50:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:50:28","slug":"at-least-here-i-cant-hear-the-blasts-thai-evacuees-flee-cambodian-border-clashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73072","title":{"rendered":"\u2018At least here I can\u2019t hear the blasts\u2019: Thai evacuees flee Cambodian border clashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deadliest fighting in more than a decade has driven more than 130,000 stunned Thai from their homes seeking safety<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/25\/thailand-cambodia-border-dispute-thai-evacuation-clashes-conflict\">Thailand-Cambodia dispute: 130,000 Thai civilians evacuated amid second day of clashes<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For almost two months, Maneerat Kote-Bandit had felt on edge, nervous that the tensions simmering on the Thai-Cambodian border might escalate. Everyone in her village, close to the disputed border, had been told to prepare emergency bags in case fighting erupted. \u201cWe kept following the news, staying alert and asking: is this the day?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, when the boom of heavy artillery and gunfire echoed through her village on Thursday morning, she was shaken with panic. It was between 8am and 9am when the blasts started. Shortly after, a message was played on a loudspeaker across the village, urging people to get ready to flee.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/25\/at-least-here-i-cant-hear-the-blasts-thai-evacuees-flee-cambodian-border-clashes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadliest fighting in more than a decade has driven more than 130,000 stunned Thai from their homes seeking safetyThailand-Cambodia dispute: 130,000 Thai civilians evacuated amid second day of clashesFor almost two months, Maneerat Kote-Bandit had felt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4863,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,361,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cambodia","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4863"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73073,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73072\/revisions\/73073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}