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Preah Vihear\/Siem Reap provinces<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 When asked how she spends her day, 11-year-old Sokna rattled off a list of chores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She first fetches water, then washes dishes and sweeps the leaves and dust from around the blue tarpaulin tent her family now calls home, in the grounds of a Buddhist pagoda in northwestern Cambodia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sokna and her sister have stopped attending school, their mother Puth Reen said, since moving to this camp for people displaced by the recent rounds of fighting between Thailand and Cambodia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The two sisters are among more than 34,440 people who remain in displacement camps in Cambodia \u2013 11,355 of whom are children \u2013 as of this month, according to the country\u2019s Ministry of Interior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI tried to tell them to go to school, but they don\u2019t go,\u201d Puth Reen told Al Jazeera, explaining how precarious life had become since returning to live in Cambodia after fleeing neighbouring Thailand, where she had worked for many years, as the fighting started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Like Puth Reen and her family, the future looks murky for the tens of thousands of Cambodians \u2013 including many schoolchildren \u2013 who are still in displacement camps, and their lives remain disrupted months after the last outbreak of fighting between Thailand and Cambodia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Forced to flee their homes in areas where local troops are now stationed and on high alert, or in areas occupied by opposing Thai forces, Cambodia\u2019s internally displaced say they are surviving off aid donations, while those more fortunate are transitioning from emergency tents into wooden stilted houses provided by the Cambodian government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But with tension still evident between the leadership in Bangkok and Phnom Penh, the tenuous ceasefire along the Thai-Cambodia border means life cannot yet return to normality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some areas on the Cambodian border, such as the villages of Chouk Chey and Prey Chan in Banteay Meanchey province, have become rallying points for nationalists who post on social media about the Thai occupation of Cambodian territory. Their anger is directed at the large shipping containers and barbed wire that Thai forces have used to block access to villages once inhabited by Cambodians and occupied during fighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Want to come back to this article? Save it<\/strong> for later.Save<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Thai military-installed containers now form a sort of new frontier between the two countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Cambodian military has also prevented people, such as local farmer Sun Reth, 67, from returning to their homes in front-line areas, which are still highly militarised zones, with troops ready at any moment for a new round of fighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNow the Cambodian military base is just next to [my house],\u201d Sun Reth said, adding that she was not allowed by authorities to sleep in her modest home or pick cashew nuts from her farm to sell for a little income.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Al Jazeera: Preah Vihear\/Siem Reap provinces\u00a0\u2013 When asked how she spends her day, 11-year-old Sokna rattled off a list of chores. She first fetches water, then washes dishes and sweeps the leaves and dust from around the blue tarpaulin tent her family now calls home, in the grounds of a Buddhist pagoda in northwestern Cambodia. Sokna and her sister have stopped attending school, their mother Puth Reen said, since moving to this camp for people displaced by the recent rounds of fighting between Thailand and Cambodia. 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