Following a ceasefire between Bangkok and Phnom Penh that ended five days of deadly border clashes, a video of a rally in Indonesia was falsely shared in Khmer-language posts claiming it showed Thai protesters demanding their government recover the bodies of soldiers killed in the conflict. The clip was filmed outside the Manado District Court in Indonesia’s North Sulawesi province, and depicts a protest about a court-ordered land seizure.<\/p>\n
“Soldiers’ families gather to demand (authorities) find the missing bodies of unaccounted for Thai soldiers,” reads the Khmer-language caption of a\u00a0Facebook video<\/a> shared on August 5, 2025.<\/p>\n The video, which has been viewed more than 13,000 times, shows a large crowd that rushes into a two-storey building with an orange-tiled roof.<\/p>\n It circulated after Cambodia and Thailand agreed to a truce<\/a> that came into effect on July 29, ending five days of clashes<\/a>\u00a0on their 800-kilometre (500-mile) boundary\u00a0that killed at least 43 people on both sides (archived\u00a0here<\/a> and here<\/a>).<\/p>\n The fighting, the latest eruption of violence in a long-standing dispute over contested border temples, also displaced more than 300,000 people.<\/p>\n Following the truce, Thailand’s deputy defence minister Nattapon Narkphanit called on Cambodia to retrieve the bodies<\/a> of its fallen troops<\/a> at the border and Cambodian social media users also claimed the corpses of Thai soldiers had been left at the frontier (archived here<\/a> and here<\/a>).<\/p>\n Screenshot of the false Facebook post captured on August 16, 2025, with a red X added by AFP<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n The footage was also shared in similar Khmer-language posts on\u00a0Facebook<\/a> and TikTok<\/a>, as well as in a few Thai posts<\/a> linking it to the border spat.<\/p>\n But the video does not show either Thai or Cambodian protesters, and is unrelated to the recent clashes.<\/p>\n Disinformation about the conflict has continued to spread<\/a> online despite the ceasefire, with misleading\u00a0 visuals and emotionally fuelled falsehoods stoking fear and hatred between the neighbours (archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\n A\u00a0reverse image search<\/a> on Google using keyframes<\/a> from the falsely shared video led to the same clip posted on\u00a0TikTok<\/a> on July 31\u00a0(archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\n Its Indonesian-language caption reads, “Demonstration #MandoCourt #LandMafia”.<\/p>\nIndonesian protest<\/h2>\n