Behind deadly clashes, a bitter spat among 2 dynasty leaders

Surin Procent, Thailand: His daughter was sidelined from the political office by a harmful phone call with the leader of Cambodia this month, Thai power broker Thassin Shinavatra broke her silence for a room of politicians and journalists. He had a surprising message to give: His decades -long relationship with Cambodian Strongman Hun Sen came to an end. “I used to be close to him – like brothers,” Thakasin said. “But what he did to my daughter, I was surprised. How could this happen?”Over the years, many people believed that personal relations between 75, 75, and Hun Sen, 72 would be glue holding two neighbors together despite a border dispute. Both were one of the most experienced politicians of South East Asia, who were bound by friendship extending for 33 years and from their shared dynastic ambitions, with children who were in power within one year of each other.Now, a crack has opened up between two men, even shocking itself to Thakasin and internal sources. And the decline has become severe, the Thai and Cambodian soldiers exchanged fire in the most deadly clashes in a decade. Analysts say they worry that enmity may be out of control.Hours after the fight on Thursday, Thakasin and Hun Sen insulted each other on social media. Thaksin said that many people had offered to mediate, but he wanted to do the Thai army to do his duty to teach Hun Sen to teach a lesson about his clever way. “Referring to himself in the third person, Hun Sen fired back at FB: “Now, on the pretext of taking revenge on Hun Sen, he is resorting to war, the final result of which will be the pain of the people.”Analysts say Hun Sen has demanded to take advantage of the upheaval within the Thai government to sideline his own validity. Even the opposition data in Cambodia has favored the government, arguing that the disputed temples lying along the border belong to the country. A crisis, the current Prime Minister and the son of Hun Sen, can strengthen the nationalist credibility of Hun Manet, who has inherent that Cambodia’s one-party rule is better than domestic chaos in Thailand because “there is no confusion or conflicting order”.The political situation of both Thacasin, a billionaire tycoon, and their ruling Fu Thai party has weakened as he signed a deal in 2022 with the Royalist-Senta establishment, which separates his main supporters at the end of the 15-year exile. For decades, Thacasin and Hun Sen worked to anchor their personal and political fate together. In 2001, he signed a memorandum to carry forward the extraction of oil and gas in the Gulf of Thailand. But the plan was fried due to the resistance of the rivals of Thasin.Even after taking out Thakasin in the 2006 coup, Hun Sen and Thasin remained close. Hun Sen appointed Thasin as an economic advisor to the Cambodian government, and he and his sister, Yingalak, who were uprooted in a coup to take shelter in his home in Cambodia. Hun Sen later said that he named the bedroom as “Thassin Room” and “Yinglak Room”.