Word: chantrea
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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Pursuing some Communist Viet Cong guerrillas who had fled across the ill-patrolled and ill-marked border, South Vietnamese T-28s had bombed the village of Chantrea, four miles inside Cambodia; the planes were followed on the ground by South Viet Nam troops accompanied by U.S. observers. Seventeen Cambodians were killed. Both the U.S. and South Viet Nam apologized for the unfortunate incident, a part of the even more unfortunate, long and deadly war in Viet Nam. But Sihanouk plastered horror pictures on every available wall and took to the radio in his terrier's tenor, accusing...
Hardly had that delegation arrived when a serious border incident erupted. In hot pursuit of a gang of 20 Viet Cong, South Vietnamese armored cars and planes attacked the village of Chantrea four miles inside Cambodia. Sihanouk called it "savage aggression," reported that 16 Cambodians had been killed. Pleading faulty map reading, the embarrassed Saigon government admitted the intrusion, apologized, and promised indemnification. But it countered that several guerrillas had been found in the village, thus tending to confirm the well-known fact that the Viet Cong operate freely out of Cambodia. As usual, Sihanouk had some more words. Over...
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