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As their plane neared Phnom-Penh, Philips and O'Shea observed that there was practically no cultivated land. "I've been flying light aircraft for a long time," Philips said, "and I've never seen a countryside more devoid of people." There were few signs of life...
Philips and O'Shea soon talked their way into a guided tour of Phnom-Penh.
Their driver was Cambodian, but one of the two escorting soldiers was Vietnamese. "The place seemed completely deserted and ruined," Philips recalled. "There were a few people squatting on the sidewalks heating food or water in tin cans over a wood fire. Others, many in rags, were pecking about in...
There were several soldiers; Philips and O'Shea could not tell from their uniforms whether they were Vietnamese or from Heng Samrin's Cambodian units. They showed their visitors the Independence Monument and seemed eager for them to have a look at Sihanouk's palace. Later some...
After his return to Bangkok, Philips spent a day at one of the huge refugee camps. "It was the nearest thing to Dachau I have ever seen," he recalled. During the few hours that Philips was there, an official told him, 546 people in the camp died of starvation or...