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.
