Rolls of razor wire now run through the middle of the village Cambodia calls Chouk Chey, and on through fields of sugar cane. Behind them, just over the border, tall black screens rise up from the ground, concealing the Thai soldiers who put them up.
This is the new, hard border between the two countries, which was once open and easily crossed by people from both sides.
Then, at 15:20 local time on 13 August, that changed.
The Thai soldiers came and asked us to leave, said Huis Malis. Then they rolled out the razor wire. I asked if I could go back to get my cooking pots. They gave me just 20 minutes.
Hers is one of 13 families who have been cut off from houses and fields on the other side of the wire where they say they have been living and working for decades.
Signs have now been erected by the Thai authorities warning Cambodians that they have been illegally encroaching on Thai territory.
In Chouk Chey, they argue, the border should run in a straight line between two stone boundary markers which were agreed and installed more than a century ago.
Thailand says it is merely securing its territory, given the current state of conflict with Cambodia. That is not the way Cambodia sees it.
Months of tension along disputed parts of their border erupted into open conflict in July, leaving around 40 people dead. Since then a fragile ceasefire has held, although a war of words, fueled by nationalist sentiments on social media, has kept both sides on edge.
The BBC has been to border areas of Cambodia, meeting people caught in the middle and seeing some of the damage left by the five days of shelling and bombing.
In Chouk Chey, Provincial Governor Oum Reatrey bemoaned the economic impact of Thailand's actions, estimating losses of one million dollars a day in customs revenue due to the border closure.
With billions of dollars in annual trade stalled, the livelihood of thousands is at risk. The situation creates both anger and a desire for confrontation among residents, who struggle with their new reality as conflict continues to loom over their lives.
This is the new, hard border between the two countries, which was once open and easily crossed by people from both sides.
Then, at 15:20 local time on 13 August, that changed.
The Thai soldiers came and asked us to leave, said Huis Malis. Then they rolled out the razor wire. I asked if I could go back to get my cooking pots. They gave me just 20 minutes.
Hers is one of 13 families who have been cut off from houses and fields on the other side of the wire where they say they have been living and working for decades.
Signs have now been erected by the Thai authorities warning Cambodians that they have been illegally encroaching on Thai territory.
In Chouk Chey, they argue, the border should run in a straight line between two stone boundary markers which were agreed and installed more than a century ago.
Thailand says it is merely securing its territory, given the current state of conflict with Cambodia. That is not the way Cambodia sees it.
Months of tension along disputed parts of their border erupted into open conflict in July, leaving around 40 people dead. Since then a fragile ceasefire has held, although a war of words, fueled by nationalist sentiments on social media, has kept both sides on edge.
The BBC has been to border areas of Cambodia, meeting people caught in the middle and seeing some of the damage left by the five days of shelling and bombing.
In Chouk Chey, Provincial Governor Oum Reatrey bemoaned the economic impact of Thailand's actions, estimating losses of one million dollars a day in customs revenue due to the border closure.
With billions of dollars in annual trade stalled, the livelihood of thousands is at risk. The situation creates both anger and a desire for confrontation among residents, who struggle with their new reality as conflict continues to loom over their lives.
