Ian Zia Kim

We had no time to think about what to take with us.

We were so terrified hearing the sound of fighter jets dropping bombs.

It's a long-running territorial dispute.

Probably you can say that leftovers of the colonial legacy in Asia is one of these long-running conflict.

Now, in 1907, the French colonial power in Indochina, they came out with a treaty and a map.

And now Thailand and Cambodia, they have a different interpretation.

They have overlapping claims.

Even though a U.N.

court ruled some of these areas in favor of Cambodia, and now Thailand doesn't accept it.

There have been clashes from 2008, intermittent, but this year it broke out in a big way.

The first one was in July, five days of conflict.

Dozens of people were killed.

Hundreds of thousands of people had to leave their homes in the border areas because these two countries, 800 kilometer border, there are many border cities where trade takes place, people's movement, tourists cross from one area to another.

And all of a sudden you have these densely populated areas, artillery fires and then rocket fires coming in, causing huge disturbance for the people.

And that's what Cambodia was telling today.

That's about half a million people have fled.

And Thailand also says hundreds of thousands of people have fled from their homes.

So it is at the end of the day, even if two nations are fighting, it is the civilians who are bearing the brunt of this conflict.

So off the back of the recent flare-up of this old conflict, Cambodia seems to be getting the worst of it.

So far, Cambodia has not given any details of military casualties, but Thailand claims that it has inflicted hundreds of Cambodian casualties during this fight.