Thailand-Cambodia ‘deep mistrust’ tests Asean’s peacekeeping role
The deployment of Asean observers along the Cambodia-Thailand border can help ensure peace, but deep mistrust between both sides may limit the regional bloc’s role as gatekeeper amid a shaky truce.
Cambodia and Thailand have agreed to allow observers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to be stationed on either side of the divide and help monitor a tenuous ceasefire after a deadly five-day border conflict last month.
The August 7 agreement was forged under a General Border...
