Foreigners including people working for international and regional media outlets such as WSJ and the 'The Diplomat' or those contributing pieces to them rarely have in-depth knowledge or lack the professionalism and integrity expected of them when reporting on these countries like Cambodia and Thailand. Vietnam for example - according ‘Reporters Without Borders’ - employs about 10,000 "opinion-shapers" online to attack, harass, distort information and gain entries into websites such as Wikipedia. Some of these individuals are operating as "free lancers" and likely paid to write such misleading reports on regional issues and a country like Cambodia.
In recent years and long before the outbreak of the Cambodia Thailand border conflict Thailand appear also to have such people working on its payroll, doing much the same malicious work harassing and labelling anyone whose views and comments fail to align with their given agendas of defending Thai military and government representatives from a British ambassador to Cambodia posting an image of "Khmer Cakes" on his social media account to ordinary Cambodian citizens posting images of their country's traditional dress.
Such attacks have often been personal enough to have forced their victims - such as the ambassador mentioned above - to remove his post shortly afterward! Meanwhile, Thailand's government delegations accuse Cambodia of waging a campaign of 'disinformation' over the on-going territorial dispute, including its FM and another Ministry official who travelled to Sweden to negotiate the purchase of Gripen fighter jets during the recent conflict. Sure enough some of these jets that Thailand have purchased for ostensibly "defensive" purposes had been deployed to terrorise Cambodian population and bomb historical cultural sites as well as civilian infrastructures such as bridges and administrative centres deep inside Cambodia territory of late.
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