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...Phnom Malai campaign also left Thailand pondering what to do with refugees associated with the Khmer Rouge, a group that many Kampucheans still despise for their atrocities while running the country between 1975 and 1978. ; The latest refugee contingent will probably not be sent to Khao I Dang, the main Thai camp for Kampucheans, nor are the Thai authorities eager to establish a special settlement. Said a Thai army major at the border, perhaps overoptimistically: "We will keep them for a while. Then we will send them back...
Midmorning on Oct. 10, 1980, a plane flew low over the foothills of the Khao Khouy Mountains in southern Laos. As it passed above the village of Long Sa, the craft began trailing plumes of reddish-yellow gas. Villagers enveloped in the falling mist felt dustlike particles landing on their skin. The air smelled of burning peppers. Ma Hear, who saw the mist fall on the village from a protected lean-to on a nearby hill, recalled that within minutes many of Long Sa's 1,000 residents fell ill. Itchy rashes, followed by tiny blisters, appeared on their...
...like Sokhar, they say nothing. Sokhar is eleven now, was eight when she first came to Khao I Dang. She too did a drawing when she arrived, but unlike Kim Seng, she did not explain it, and in fact said almost nothing at all during her first two years at the camp. Sokhar is well fed, and soft-featured, though "in Cambodia I met with starvation." She has crying fits still, but is beginning to talk. It is difficult, however, to speak of her drawing, which, while primitive, requires an explanation...
...most of the children are in the theater tent now-the "Khao I Dang National Theater"-milling and chattering with expectation. Then the bright pink curtains part, showing a backdrop painting of Angkor Wat. The xylophone plays the water-drop music. The dancers enter. The boys strut, the girls cock their hands and heads and do not smile. They glow with color, their dark brown skins set off by the deep blues, reds and greens of their sarongs and sashes. They do four dances, starting with a hunting dance in which a small boy brandishes a spear and tries...
...this respect, their situation is not terribly different from the Cambodian children at Khao I Dang?except that their hopes of resettlement are justifiably higher. But in temperament the Vietnamese children seem quite different from the Khmer. Generally they are wilder and more independent, either because of their greater freedom in the camps or because of something characteristic. Argyle 4 used to be a storage depot for Hong Kong's armed forces. Now it looks like a teen-age canteen, the kids loitering under the fluorescent lights like teen-agers in any poor city neighborhood, their self-possession equally dopey...