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Seven Thai soldiers were killed and at least 16 injured. Radio Hanoi reported a Vietnamese Foreign Ministry statement denying the latest reported incursion into Thailand. Thailand accused Vietnam of at least 40 cross-border forays in search of Cambodian guerrillas since November 1984, but the Vietnamese government had denied the charges. [70]
Thailand was in conflict with Vietnam because of Thai opposition to Vietnam's occupation of Cambodia. Border raids were launched between both nations, damaged much of Cambodia, and further soured relations. Hostility between Thailand and Vietnam ended in 1989, when Vietnamese forces withdrew from Cambodia.
1969 map of the Demilitarized Zone. The Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone was a demilitarized zone at the 17th parallel in Quang Tri province that was the dividing line between North Vietnam and South Vietnam from 21 July 1954 to 2 July 1976, when Vietnam was officially divided into 2 de facto countries, which was 2 de jure military gathering areas supposed to be sustained in the short term after ...
Franco-Thai War (1940–41)(Vietnam as part of French Indochina) Indecisive Thai invasion of French Indochina Disputed territories given to Thailand by Japan: 12 Thai intervention to Vietnam: North Vietnamese victory Thai involvement as part of the allies Fall of Saigon: 13 Vietnamese border raids in Thailand: Status quo ante bellum
The Vietnamese push to completely destroy the Khmer Rouge led to them conducting border raids in Thailand against those who had provided sanctuary. [7] [8] Vietnam-China relations became tense because Vietnam chose to be pro-Soviet after unification in 1976 instead of being neutral as before. China strongly objected to the invasion of Cambodia.
Prior to the battle, Vietnam was still dealing with the Cambodian–Vietnamese War and FULRO insurgency. [8] Starting from 1983, Vietnamese border raids in Thailand increased as Vietnam aimed to eliminate the remnants of the Khmer Rouge forces who fled there. [8]
The border starts in the north at the tripoint with Laos and then proceeds overland to the south, occasionally utilising rivers such as the Tonlé San. [2] It then turns in a broad arc to the south-west, except for the Cambodian protrusion known as the Parrot's Beak, running mostly overland but also at times using rivers such as the Vàm Cỏ Đông and the Saigon.
In 1819, Gia Long ordered the construction of Vĩnh Tế canal that connected Châu Đốc and Hà Tiên on the Cambodian–Vietnamese border, [5] putting Cambodian people into the labor works. Siamese court at Bangkok was greatly alarmed by construction of this canal, suspecting that the canal was to facilitate mobilization of Vietnamese navy ...