Word: kampucheans
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...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...
...Vietnamese last week continued mopping up, no trace of the Kampuchean leadership could be found. Pol Pot himself was reported in Siem Reap. Observers suspected that he and other leaders, acting on contingency plans, had slipped away to the mountains of the Elephant Range along the coast, a favorite retreat in old guerrilla days...
Heng Samrin, 45, a onetime Khmer Rouge military leader who rose to political power under Pol Pot and then defected to form the Vietnamese-backed Kampuchean National United Front for National Salvation (KNUFNS). Entering Phnom-Penh at the head of his KNUFNS forces last week, Heng Samrin announced the formation of a ruling eight-member People's Revolutionary Council and called on beleaguered Cambodians to return to the villages from which Pol Pot had driven them. "From Mimot to Korat to Molu and Strung," the new Radio Phnom-Penh soon announced jubilantly, "thousands of buffalo carts...
Peking was plainly embarrassed by the events, particularly since the capture of Cambodia's three major airports and lone seaport at Kompong Som ruled out any possibility of resupplying the tattered Kampuchean fighters. The Chinese contented themselves with beefing up their own forces along the Vietnamese border and hurling insults, mainly at the Soviets for supporting the invasion. "An aggressor's day of ascendancy," proclaimed an enigmatic statement released in Peking, "is the beginning of his defeat...