Word: kantuot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Khmer insurgent offensive slowed, but in June the attacks began again, this time concentrating on the area to the south and southwest of the capital. Village after village was held briefly, then abandoned after air strikes and artillery duels. For the government forces, disaster follows disaster. When Kompong Kantuot near Phnom-Penh was abandoned, the government troops were forced to swim the Thnot River because insurgents had blown the bridges. Some of the soldiers-boys aged twelve to 15-drowned. Those who escaped heard others, left behind and afraid to swim, weeping in fear and despair...
...diversionary attacks. Communist raiders occupied a railway station and shelled a munitions factory, a pagoda, the Cambodian navy base on the Mekong and a schoolyard in the city itself. On the horizon, the glow of flames could be seen above the town of Kompong Kantuot, 15 miles from the capital but well within its so-called "defense perimeter...
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