Word: samrin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ended the latest phase of the annual dry-season effort by Hanoi to stamp out forces opposed to the Kampuchean regime of Heng Samrin, who is widely considered to be a Vietnamese puppet. From Hanoi's point of view, the operation was a success: between 89 and 103 guerrillas were killed or wounded in the action, while Vietnamese casualties were presumed to be much lighter. Moreover, the attack dealt a blow to the Khmer Front, the major non-Communist element in the close to 60,000-member guerrilla coalition that is continuing to resist the 1978 Vietnamese invasion of Kampuchea...
Diplomatically, however, the guerrilla alliance has been holding a strong hand: the Heng Samrin regime has never been recognized as legitimate by the United Nations. The Khmer Front and the Sihanouk forces have the backing of the U.S. and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei and the Philippines). A sustained Vietnamese attack on the front thus weakens a non-Communist alternative to the Heng Samrin government. By themselves, the stronger and more aggressive Khmer Rouge are far less likely to draw international sympathy to the resistance cause, since they are still remembered by the rest...
...estimated 1,000 Vietnamese infantrymen, led by armored vehicles, had fought their way into Rithysen (also known as Nong Samet), about 140 miles east of Bangkok. Their aim: to destroy the camp and other centers of opposition to the Viet Nam-backed Kampuchean government of Heng Samrin, and to drive the refugees into Thailand. An estimated 55 resistance fighters and 63 civilians died in the assault, according to guerrilla sources...
Attacks like the strike against Rithysen have become an annual dry-season ritual in the six years since Viet Nam invaded Kampuchea, then known as Cambodia, and installed the Heng Samrin regime in Phnom Penh. Even though the brutal former Khmer Rouge government of Pol Pot had been blamed for the deaths of as many as 2 million of the country's 6 million people between 1975 and 1978, many Kampucheans fought back against the Vietnamese invasion as best they could. Some 500,000 civilians and several thousand guerrillas took refuge in camps close to the Thai border. Year after...
...Communist Khmer People's National Liberation Front. This group, led by onetime Prime Minister Son Sann, is supported by the U.S. and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. It has formed a loose coalition with the Khmer Rouge and the Sihanouk forces, aimed at overthrowing the Heng Samrin regime and driving out the Vietnamese. Though the resistance organizations, fielding an estimated 50,000 lightly equipped fighters, have no chance of doing that for the present, they constitute a challenge that the Vietnamese are continuing to take very seriously...