Word: beene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like most Vietnamese deserters, the soldiers were draftees from South Viet Nam. After receiving rudimentary basic :raining, Privates Tran, 25, Mai, 21, and Van, 24, had been shipped to northwest Cambodia to reinforce the occupying troops. Though Tran and Mai were sent to Cambodia in different units, their transport was...
As ideologically suspect South Vietnamese, the three soldiers were treated as second-class citizens who were not allowed to carry weapons in Hanoi's army. They trailed behind North Vietnamese regulars engaged in mop-up operations against the Khmer Rouge insurgents. Casualties and deaths were heavy in combat with...
The deserters' firsthand accounts confirmed reports by American intelligence. The White House protested that Hanoi has been diverting international relief supplies intended for Cambodia's hungry civilians to its own occupying troops. However, Washington's appeal "not to feed the flames of war, but to use your...
Few Westerners have been allowed to visit Cambodia since the Vietnamese occupation. Last month, however, French Photojournalist Jean-Claude Labbe was permitted to make an unprecedented four-week tour of the country. Traveling by motorcycle and by car, without escort except for a 20-mile stretch near the Thai border...
Everywhere, the Vietnamese and the pro-Hanoi Cambodian regime manifested a confident hold on the Cambodian land and people. According to some estimates, the 100,000 crack troops that invaded Cambodia have since been reinforced by more than another 100,000 men. In addition, the Vietnamese have trained a vast...