Landmines highlight Thai 'cherry-picking' in Cambodian border crisis

Bangkok seeks international support over devices but not on broader dispute

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Col. Somchok Jantasee, who heads a Thai mine clearing unit, with devices allegedly planted by Cambodian troops that were unearthed along the nations' disputed border. (Photo by Marwaan Macan-Markar)

MARWAAN MACAN-MARKAR

PHU MAKHUA, Thailand -- The guns may have fallen silent in this remote patch along the Thai-Cambodian border, where the late-July clashes between the Southeast Asian neighbors was the heaviest, but Phu Makhua has since emerged as ground zero in Thailand's diplomatic offensive against Cambodia over allegations of newly laid landmines.

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