This is the Popular Front podcast with me Jake Hanrahan.

We're focused on the niche details of modern warfare and underreported conflict all across the world.

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Today we're speaking to Nathan Paul Southern and Lindsay Kennedy.

They're investigative journalists working with eyewitness project,

looking at the links between organised crime, conflict and corruption all over the world.

They're going to be talking to us today about the conflict on the border between Thailand and Cambodia.

Recently things got very heavy.

There's been shelling back and forth gun battles

and all of this is possibly related to temples

and what is called scam compounds.

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Straight to the point, what the hell is going on between Thailand and Cambodia?

This was like kind of out of left field as far as I was aware.

I mean, I don't really focus on the area, but basically motor rounds over the border,

like arm clashes all of a sudden.

What happened?

What kicked all this off?

Maybe explain what actually happened first, because I think a lot of people,

it just kind of went over their heads.

Yeah, so it definitely feels even here, like it's not been completely out of nowhere but how heavy it got and in such a

short space of time has surprised everyone but the tensions have been kind of building for the last

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