Word: kampuchean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mile border. More important, the cross-border incidents were part of a Chinese effort to intimidate Viet Nam at a time when the Hanoi government was stepping up its offensive against the rebels who oppose Viet Nam's occupation of neighboring Kampuchea. Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the former Kampuchean ruler who now heads the anti-Vietnamese resistance movement, acknowledged as much when he declared at a Peking news conference, "The more China intervenes against Viet Nam, the more we are satisfied...
...February and March 1979. At that time, China had justified its brief invasion of Viet Nam as a "lesson" designed to discourage the Vietnamese from engaging in any more troublemaking along the border. But for the past several weeks, the Chinese have been upset about Vietnamese attacks on Kampuchean refugee camps located along the border between Kampuchea and Thailand. The Chinese were particularly alarmed when the Vietnamese carried their war right into Thailand, shelling Kampuchean refugee camps and also hitting Thai villages...
...insurgents but at unarmed civilians in both Kampuchea and neighboring Thailand. Hanoi's troops ventured a mile into Thai terrain and shelled several villages and a highway. Charges of atrocities grew last week as witnesses claimed that during the attack on O Samach, Vietnamese soldiers herded Kampuchean civilians into bunkers and then tossed hand grenades at them...
...latest Vietnamese assault has forced 45,000 Kampuchean civilians who live in camps along the 450-mile border with Thailand to flee across the frontier; according to some reports, 90 people have been killed and 300 wounded. Said State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg: "We are appalled that Vietnamese forces indiscriminately attacked settlements containing thousands of civilians." The U.S. has already sent an emergency grant of $1.5 million to the Red Cross, and last week it announced that it would immediately begin airlifting into Thailand a number of Redeye antiaircraft missiles, followed by new 155-mm extended-range howitzers...