30/4/2011 – Children are among the tens of thousands of civilians displaced in the ongoing territorial conflict between Thailand and Cambodia.
As of yesterday evening, it was reported that 42,500 Cambodian civilians have fled violent skirmishes erupting along the country’s border with Thailand. Most of them are women, children and elderly persons. An estimated 11,200 of those forced to flee their homes are people who have been displaced recently.
According to a more recent media report by the AFP, the total number of displaced people now exceeds 85,000 civilians.
“We have never expected such great number of evacuees, so now our major concerns for them are clean water and sanitary facilities,” Nhim Vanda of the Cambodian National Committee for Disaster Management told China’s Xinhua News Agency.
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