Thailand has issued a full-throated rebuttal of comments by a UN human rights specialist whose visit last week to Cambodia found 20,000 people remain displaced by the border war, as the neighbouring nations engage in a battle for international opinion over their deadly territorial dispute. Thailand and Cambodia fought a brief but bloody border war in July and December last year that killed scores and displaced roughly a million people across both sides of the disputed frontier. A December 2025 ceasefire has roughly held, despite occasional firefights across an 800km (497 miles) border now marked by fences, shipping containers and barbed wire. Tom Andrews, UN special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia, speaks at a press conference in Phnom Penh on Friday. Photo: EPATom Andrews, a United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia, concluded his first trip to the Southeast Asian nation last Friday.