‘Wailing ghosts through loudspeakers’: Cambodia accuses Thailand of psychological warfare along border

Cambodia's rights commission said intense, high-pitched noises' broadcast by Thai soldiers along the disputed border threatened to escalate tensions

Cambodia's former leader Hun Sen has complained about Thailand broadcasting ghost-like sounds across a disputed border, while the country's human rights commission has accused its neighbour of engaging in psychological warfare, despite both countries agreeing to a ceasefire in July.

Posting on Facebook, Hun Sen, 73, who now serves as Cambodia's powerful senate president, said Cambodia's human rights commission had complained to the United Nations about the intense, high-pitched noises".