"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. The two sisters are among more than 34,440 people who remain in displacement camps in Cambodia 11,355 of whom are children as of this month, according to the country's Ministry of Interior. I tried to tell them to go to school, but they don't go, 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."
"Like Puth Reen and her family, the future looks murky for the tens of thousands of Cambodians including many schoolchildren who are still in displacement camps, and their lives remain disrupted months after the last outbreak of fighting between Thailand and Cambodia. 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's 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."
"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. Some areas on the Cambodian border, such as the villages of Chouk Chey and"
Families displaced by fighting between Thailand and Cambodia are living in camps in northwestern Cambodia, including grounds of Buddhist pagodas. An 11-year-old and her sister stopped attending school after moving to a displacement camp. More than 34,440 people remain displaced, including 11,355 children, according to Cambodia’s Ministry of Interior. Families describe precarious daily life, relying on aid and coping with ongoing tension along the border. Some displaced families are moving from emergency tents into government-provided wooden stilted houses, while others remain in tents. A tenuous ceasefire and continued leadership tensions prevent normal life from returning.
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