Pointing toward roughly built houses cut off behind coils of shiny new razor wire, weeping Cambodian villagers complained that Thai soldiers had evicted them from homes near the front line despite a ceasefire agreed by the neighbors under pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump.

One Thai official described the accusation as "fake news." Thailand, meanwhile, alleges that its soldiers have been wounded by newly placed land mines.

The allegations by both Southeast Asian countries are putting strain on a ceasefire for which Cambodia—its army heavily outgunned by Thailand's much larger and better-equipped forces—has become one of the latests countries to nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.

"We want to show the international community how the Thai government violated the ceasefire by putting the barbed wire and pushing the people back from the border," Banthey Meanchey Province Governor Oum Reatrey told Newsweek during a media visit to the front line set up by the authorities.

"We never planted new mines and we never violated the ceasefire agreement. And we want to keep the area calm here," he said at the Prey Chan village.

A U.S. State Department spokesperson said in an email to Newsweek: "We remain steadfast in our resolve to see this ceasefire hold and turn into a durable and lasting peace."

Newsweek sought comment from the Thai Army.

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