Word: kampuchean
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...started at midnight. It was so heavy that I could hardly raise my head to fire at the men climbing toward us," said Squad Leader Ngun Chin, 29, describing the Vietnamese artillery rounds that rained last week on Green Hill, the last major Khmer resistance stronghold on the Thai-Kampuchean border. All night long, Chin and his 32 guerrilla fighters were pinned down in a trench at the edge of a steep escarpment that the defenders had hoped would protect them against being overrun. But shortly before dawn, Chin's squad received orders to withdraw, and the camp's entire...
...season offensive that has forced the Khmer resistance to reassess its six-year-old insurgency. In a series of strikes against strongholds of non-Communist and Communist resistance groups, the Vietnamese had pushed the guerrillas out of one border sanctuary after another. As the fighting raged, 230,000 Kampuchean refugees sought shelter across the frontier in Thailand. In ousting the resistance from its redoubts, the Vietnamese also cut supply lines that link Thailand with guerrilla groups operating deep within Kampuchea...
...addressed to the "international community," but the message was obviously intended more for Washington than anywhere else. Following a special meeting in the Thai capital of Bangkok, the foreign ministers of six non- Communist Asian nations last week issued an unprecedented appeal for "support and assistance to the Kampuchean people" in the "military struggle" to oust their country's Vietnamese occupiers. To the representatives of ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei and the Philippines), backing for Kampuchea these days means weapons. Comparing the Kampucheans with Afghan freedom fighters, Thai Foreign Minister Siddhi Savetsila declared...
...reason for ASEAN's action was soon evident. Within 24 hours, more than 30,000 Vietnamese troops supported by tanks and artillery had launched the final phase of a powerful pincer assault near the Thai border with Kampuchea. Their aim: to brush aside an estimated 10,000 lightly armed Kampuchean resistance fighters and gain control of a mountainous guerrilla fastness known as Phnom Malai. Two and a half months into this year's dry-season offensive, the Vietnamese had decided to move decisively against the most resilient resistance group of all, the remnants of the Khmer Rouge, who ran Kampuchea...
...Vietnamese now apparently intend to establish military camps along the Thai-Kampuchean frontier in an effort to keep arms and other supplies, which filter through Thailand, from reaching the resistance fighters. Thai military observers are skeptical, however, that Hanoi will be able to maintain its hold on the area once the dry season ends in April. Said General Salya Sripen, commander of the Royal Thai army's eastern forces: "I think the Vietnamese border units will be in difficulty by the beginning of the rainy season. The Khmer Rouge will attack them from the interior...