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...Joffe uses voice overs, mental "Dear Sidney" letters to expose the action and Pran's reaction. The technique backfires, and they might have been better off leaving off the whole section in Cambodian. A more intelligent solution would have been to use subtitles, letting the vicious regimentation of the Khmer Rouge speak for itself...
Unnerved by the concentration of firepower, many of Ampil's 5,000 defenders, all members of the anti-Communist Khmer People's National Liberation Front (K.P.N.L.F.), broke and ran. Some managed to regroup for counterattacks, but eventually most of the lightly armed guerrillas scrambled to safety across the Thai border. Within 36 hours last week, the Vietnamese had mopped up all significant resistance at Ampil, in the process sending small detachments of regular troops across the ill- defined Thai border. At one point, a Vietnamese officer walked up to a Thai army checkpoint to inquire where the frontier was. During...
...widely considered to be a Vietnamese puppet. From Hanoi's point of view, the operation was a success: between 89 and 103 guerrillas were killed or wounded in the action, while Vietnamese casualties were presumed to be much lighter. Moreover, the attack dealt a blow to the Khmer Front, the major non-Communist element in the close to 60,000-member guerrilla coalition that is continuing to resist the 1978 Vietnamese invasion of Kampuchea...
...Vietnamese launched the initial phase of their offensive in November, and on Christmas Day attacked Rithysen, the biggest of eight Khmer Front guerrilla bases that dot the Kampuchean side of the border. The Christmas onslaught drove some 62,000 civilian refugees into Thailand; the threat to Ampil added 23,000 more. Many of the guerrillas are expected to filter back into Kampuchea, but the Vietnamese have made public statements indicating that they intend a permanent occupation of the border region, depriving the guerrillas of their comfortable zone of sanctuary. If the K.P.N.L.F. intends to fight on, it will probably have...
This year's Vietnamese drive has differed from earlier campaigns in both its relative ferocity and its single-minded concentration on the Khmer Front component of the Kampuchean resistance. With an estimated 12,000 fighters led by onetime Prime Minister Son Sann, the front is linked in a loose alliance with some 40,000 guerrillas of the Communist Khmer Rouge, backed by China, and 5,000 soldiers loyal to Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Kampuchea's former head of state. The guerrilla forces are no match for the Vietnamese, who maintain approximately 160,000 troops in Kampuchea and can bring in heavy...