As a Cambodian living in Thailand, 31-year-old Da, has kept her children home from school this week in fear they might face abuse.

“One of my friends went to the market yesterday to buy durian and the seller told her that she hated Cambodians,” she says, of rising tensions between the neighbouring countries.

Days after Thailand and Cambodia announced a ceasefire after a deadly five-day conflict, relations remain dangerously frayed, and peace tenuous. Since the truce both sides have accused each other of violating it, while online, public distrust is being fuelled by a bitter confluence of disinformation, threats and nationalism.

Dowsawan Vanthong, 50, who is volunteering at a temple in Surin,