Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Kambodiya ta sami 'yancin kai a 1953, kuma jihohin biyu tun daga wannan lokacin suna da dangantaka mai rikitarwa. Wata takaddama ta taso a ƙarshen 1950s game da mallakar Preah Vihear Temple, wanda ke kusa da kan iyaka a tsaunukan Dângrêk. A cikin 1962 an gabatar da shari'ar ga Kotun Shari'a ta Duniya, wacce ta yanke hukunci a kan Kambodiya, duk da haka Thailand ta nuna shakku game da sakamakon. Tsakiyar shekarun 1960s kuma sun ga takaddama kan mallakar tsibirin Ko Kut. Wadannan rikice-rikice sun ɓace yayin da Kambodiya ta shiga cikin rikice-rikice a cikin shekarun da suka biyo baya da kuma mummunar mulkin Khmer Rouge, tare da dubban 'yan gudun hijirar da ke tsallaka iyaka. Zuwa 1981, sama da 'yan gudun hijirar Cambodia da Vietnamese 250,000 sun zauna a sansanoni ashirin a kan iyaka, tare da taimakon hukumomin agaji na duniya da kuma Ofishin Gudanar da Gudanar da Ƙungiyar Majalisar Dinkin Duniya. Yaƙe-yaƙe na yau da kullun sun ɓarke a kan iyaka bayan mamayewar Vietnam
na Kambodiya a shekarar 1979, ya ci gaba a cikin shekarun 1980 har sai Vietnam ta janye daga kasar a shekarar 1989. A kokarin dakatar da kutsewar Khmer Rouge daga Thailand, Kambodiya ta gina babbar shinge mai ƙarfi a kan iyaka a rabi na biyu na 1980s. Tun lokacin da aka sami zaman lafiya a Kambodiya a farkon shekarun 1990 dangantakar da Thailand ta sake yin mummunan rauni game da batun Preah Vihear, da kuma, a wani karamin mataki, tsibirin Ko Kut. An kafa kwamitin kan iyaka a 1995 a kokarin warware matsalolin cikin lumana, duk da haka ba ta samu ci gaba ba kuma har yanzu ana ci gaba da samun cikakken iyakar iyaka mai gamsarwa ga bangarorin biyu.