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...just as intense. Phnom-Penh accused its neighbors in Viet Nam of destroying Cambodian rubber plantations, burning forests, seizing cattle and poultry, even "raping and killing our women in crueler manner than the Thieu-Ky and South Korean mercenary troops of the past." Hanoi charged that Cambodia's Khmer Rouge guerrillas had made incursions into Viet Nam and had looted and sacked its pagodas, schools and hospitals. Far worse, it accused the guerrillas of "raping, tearing fetuses from mothers' wombs, disemboweling adults and burning children alive." Were it not for the fact that thousands of helpless people have...
...started centuries ago, fueled by religious differences and by economic competition over the Mekong River basin, and has never ceased. Common cause against the South Viet Nam regime and the U.S. merely dampened mutual hatreds; even in the midst of war, there were incidents between them. In 1973 the Khmer Rouge attacked North Vietnamese who were maintaining a wartime supply line through the Parrot's Beak, where Cambodian territory protrudes into Viet Nam. The Cambodians suspected-justifiably, as it turned out-that the Vietnamese were holding Chinese arms meant for Khmer Rouge fighters...
When the war ended, the old antagonisms flamed again. The Khmer Rouge, xenophobic and oppressive to an extreme that embarrasses Big Brother China, started a reign of terror at home and abroad. Cambodians were driven from Phnom-Penh to the countryside; thousands, including Communists, were purged and killed, and thousands more fled the country. Obsessed with their long hatred of a powerful neighbor, the Cambodians forced Viet Nam to withdraw from the Parrot's Beak. The Khmer Rouge, meanwhile, also occupied several disputed islands in the Gulf of Siam, forcing Vietnamese to leave. After that, relations between...
After Communist Chairman Pol Pot became Premier of Democratic Kampuchea in 1976, his forces stepped up their assaults along the border. The Vietnamese retaliated with air and artillery strikes. Four months ago, the defiant Khmer Rouge launched their most ferocious attack yet, killing at least 1,000 villagers in a series of raids...
Many of the Khmer Rouge fled Cambodia following an internecine struggle inside Angka six months ago. The reason for the purge: some of the older organization men dared to propose moderating changes in what had become in effect a penal society. They were eliminated for making these suggestions. In the village of Tien Kam, for instance, the Khmer Rouge "controller" was killed by a girl of 18-who then took his place...