On the evening of September 27, 2025, Cambodian Senate President Hun Sen posted two recommendations to Malaysian military leaders and the ASEAN Interim Observer Team (IOT) to promote transparent and impartial ceasefire monitoring.
Hun Sen said a ceasefire violation involving mortars and machine guns had occurred that day. He said Prime Minister Hun Manet and he had urgently held an online meeting and instructed Cambodian troops to exercise restraint and not return fire.
After the incident, Cambodia and Thailand accused each other of breaching the ceasefire and both submitted complaints to the IOT. Hun Sen proposed two steps for a fair investigation:
1. Conduct ballistic analysis, as the two militaries use different ammunition, to establish its origin.
2. Inspect craters on the ground to determine the direction of fire and whether the shells came from Cambodia or Thailand.
He asked Cambodian troops to preserve the craters and provide genuine, complete conditions for the IOT’s investigation, and urged Thailand to cooperate in the same way. He said that truth withstands scrutiny and argued that refusing observers’ investigation would amount to admitting responsibility for firing.
The report presents the comments as Cambodia’s effort to maintain confidence in the ceasefire through international observation and prevent escalation through a transparent, impartial investigation.
Compiled by KPS99TV.
