Kuala Lampur, Aug. 11 -- Any ceasefire will always have spoilers. Not all guns can stay silent immediately.

The Cambodian-Thai border is once again under the shadow of an old but lethal danger: landmines. Stealth-like but supremely dangerous in breaking the ceasefire into ramparts at different flash points of Cambodia and Thai borders.

The latest dispute - allegations that Cambodia has deployed PMN-2 anti-personnel mines, which the Chief of Royal Thai Army strongly opposes - has the potential to unravel the fragile peace secured in the July 28, 2025 ceasefire agreement; which was further reinforced in Kuala Lumpur on August 4-8 2025.

The General Border Committee (GBC), now tasked with operationalising that truce, faces its first real t...