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...using the prisoners as hostages, in the hope of warding off attacks by Viet Cong or North Vietnamese troops. Two weeks ago, the sound of Communist gunfire prompted Cambodian troops to slaughter 90 prisoners in a camp at Prasaut. Late last week, near an area of heavy fighting in Takeo province, about 50 miles south of Phnom-Penh, Cambodian soldiers opened fire on more than 200 Vietnamese held prisoner at another camp (see box, page...
...Mekong River ferry linking Svay Rieng with Phnom-Penh, leading some observers to speculate that they hoped to lure a large defense force across the river and trap it there. To the south, a combined force of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops advanced on the provincial capital of Takeo. During one of its fiercest battles against seasoned Communist troops so far, the inexperienced Cambodian army lost 150 men killed or missing in 48 hours...
TIME'S Robert Anson and T.D. AIIman arrived in Takeo, 50 miles from Phnom-Penh, only hours after Cambodian soldiers had gunned down more than 150 Vietnamese. The victims included 110 men, 30 boys under the age of eleven, half a dozen government officials of Vietnamese extraction, and an unknown number of women and girls. Anson's and Allman's report...
...came upon the massacre almost by accident. In Takeo we hoped to get a military briefing from the local commander, a tall, soft-spoken captain. We called him "Killer" because journalists here believe that he was responsible for the massacre of 92 Vietnamese at Prasaut. We were heading toward Killer's office-he refused to give us his real name-but we decided first to visit the 200 Vietnamese men we had seen interned at the Takeo primary school two days earlier...
They told us that early in the week all Vietnamese males from the age of six up had been arrested in the Takeo market and herded into the schoolyard bandstand. For two days they were without food, water or sanitation. Last night, a few minutes after a Cambodian officer arrived on the scene, they were ordered to lie down on the cement floor and go to sleep. Seconds later they heard the order in Cambodian: "Ready, aim, fire." There were three fusillades in all, administered by Cambodian troops shooting into the darkness. Some soldiers then waded into the tangle...