Word: phnom-penh
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...week's end, Vietnamese spearheads had penetrated some 65 miles into Cambodia along Route 1 only 36 miles from the capital of Phnom-Penh. Supporting them were elements of eight Vietnamese divisions, armed with captured American tanks, armored personnel carriers and artillery. Neither side disclosed its casualties...
...propaganda war was 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...
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...
...fighting in small groups, mounted occasional ambushes but were no match for the overpowering Vietnamese. Last week Giap's advance units, bypassing towns, finally halted near Neak Luong on the banks of the Mekong River. Though fighting continued sporadically, Hanoi offered to negotiate and restore diplomatic relations, which Phnom-Penh had broken off as the new year began. Refusing the offer, the Cambodians instead angrily accused Moscow of providing troop commanders and advisers for the Vietnamese invasion. At week's end Phnom-Penh admitted that the Vietnamese had penetrated Cambodia but claimed that they had been driven back...
Cambodian cities, including Phnom-Penh, have become little more than transportation railheads for rural cooperatives as the government, citing a threat from "spies" of all sorts, forced people into the countryside. The cooperatives are spartan. Some of the refugees in Thailand are from a typical cooperative in a village called Kok Tlok. As they describe it, the village, really a large plantation, houses 10,000 residents in thatched huts, with up to three families in each hut. The cooperative is run by only five controllers, and were it not for the gaunt residents' tattered clothes-the regime issues...