Cambodia’s Senate President Hun Sen vowed Tuesday that his country would mount a fierce fight against Thailand as renewed clashes along the border forced tens of thousands to flee.

The fighting erupted after a skirmish Sunday night in which a Thai soldier was killed, despite a July cease-fire that had ended five days of combat over contested border territoryβ€”a conflict that previously claimed dozens of civilian and military lives and displaced more than 100,000 people.

In a statement on Facebook and Telegram, Hun Sen said Cambodia had held fire Monday but began returning fire overnight, focusing on areas of Thai advance to β€œweaken an

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