Word: pailin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battalions are supplemented by local and provincial militias, perhaps 150,000 in all, which Hun Sen hopes will do better at defending their homes. As yet, both the army and the rural militias are largely untested. But last week the regulars were still resisting a Khmer Rouge offensive on Pailin, a ruby-rich district near the Thai border that is critical to the rebels' infiltration route...
...Monday, Khmer Rouge radio claimed its forces had captured "a major strategic position" on the road between the key towns of Battambang and Pailin in western Cambodia...
...Pailin is the center of a remote ruby mining district near Thailand, where the guerrilla groups are based...
Phnom Penh's defense minister, Gen. Tea Banh, has acknowledged the guerrillas have seized teritory near Pailin, but said the area remained under government control...