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...plea was addressed to the "international community," but the message was obviously intended more for Washington than anywhere else. Following a special meeting in the Thai capital of Bangkok, the foreign ministers of six non- Communist Asian nations last week issued an unprecedented appeal for "support and assistance to the Kampuchean people" in the "military struggle" to oust their country's Vietnamese occupiers. To the representatives of ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei and the Philippines), backing for Kampuchea these days means weapons. Comparing the Kampucheans with Afghan freedom fighters, Thai Foreign Minister Siddhi...
...reason for ASEAN's action was soon evident. Within 24 hours, more than 30,000 Vietnamese troops supported by tanks and artillery had launched the final phase of a powerful pincer assault near the Thai border with Kampuchea. Their aim: to brush aside an estimated 10,000 lightly armed Kampuchean resistance fighters and gain control of a mountainous guerrilla fastness known as Phnom Malai. Two and a half months into this year's dry-season offensive, the Vietnamese had decided to move decisively against the most resilient resistance group of all, the remnants of the Khmer Rouge, who ran Kampuchea...
...Vietnamese now apparently intend to establish military camps along the Thai-Kampuchean frontier in an effort to keep arms and other supplies, which filter through Thailand, from reaching the resistance fighters. Thai military observers are skeptical, however, that Hanoi will be able to maintain its hold on the area once the dry season ends in April. Said General Salya Sripen, commander of the Royal Thai army's eastern forces: "I think the Vietnamese border units will be in difficulty by the beginning of the rainy season. The Khmer Rouge will attack them from the interior...
...Malai campaign also left Thailand pondering what to do with refugees associated with the Khmer Rouge, a group that many Kampucheans still despise for their atrocities while running the country between 1975 and 1978. ; The latest refugee contingent will probably not be sent to Khao I Dang, the main Thai camp for Kampucheans, nor are the Thai authorities eager to establish a special settlement. Said a Thai army major at the border, perhaps overoptimistically: "We will keep them for a while. Then we will send them back...
...determined to fight "to the last Cambodian" to realize their long-sought aim of dominion over all of Indochina. The continual fighting has given rise to one of the most acute famines of modern times, has created a permanent presence of hundreds of thousands of refugees on the Thai-Cambodian border, and has sent a veritable diaspora of displaced Cambodians out into the world...