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...Quang Duc, who was aged 73 at the time (June...
...much of its army is tied down battling a onetime ally: Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, who are trying to annex Vietnamese districts contiguous to Cambodia in order to regain control over the tens of thousands of Cambodians who fled the new Phnom-Penh regime. Viet Nam's Quang Due province has been repeatedly attacked by the Khmer Rouge, while Hanoi's forces have made counterthrusts into Cambodia's Svay Rieng. Neither government seems to have clear control of Chau Doc province...
...Sons in the south, the Trinh family, which rules the north, decided to break a 100-year truce and recapture the southern region that had split away in 1613. They managed to seize the southern capital of Hué last year, but the Tay Son brothers intercepted them in Quang Nam and halted their advance. Prospect: further bloodshed and confusion...
American press accounts showed the countryside filled with peasants fleeing to the cities. They said they were running from the ensuing communist bloodbath. But in fact, forced evacuation of the people by the South Vietnamese army was taking place. In the countryside around the town of Quang-ngai, many families were herded into helicopters by the South Vietnamese who set their houses on fire, shot their animals, and destroyed their crops. Then they were left stranded outside Quang-ngai, perhaps intended to block the advance of the communist troops. Other areas received similar treatment by the South Vietnamese army...
...received reports soon after from a missionary in the Quang-ngai province that much of the city of Ban Me Thuot, the capital of Darlac province, had been destroyed by South Vietnamese bombing. The Provisional Revolutionary Government news agency reported that about 200 people were killed or wounded in this attack, some of them former Saigon soldiers and officers. The Saigon regime defended itself by saying they were only bombing to destroy military equipment and installations their troops left behind. The soldiers used scoreched-earth tactics as well to destroy the area before the communists reached it and to drive...