CAMBODIA:
A Shattered Society (translated from French "Le Mal cambodgien:
histoire d'une societe traditionelle face a ses leaders politiques,
1946-1987", University of California Press, 1989, 1994).
Chapter 8: The Vietnamese Occupation and the Resistance
THEY'RE TAKING OUR RICE
Since rice was in short supply, the international community responded
from the end of summer 1979....aid did not reach the inhabitants....
French journalist Roland-Pierre Paringaux:
Only 4 to 5 percent of the aid goes to the provinces... Fifty percent
is not listed on any distribution document....convoys of twenty to
thirty Vietnamese trucks come from Phnom Penh two to three times each
week and move toward Saigon, loaded with sacks of rice and other
foodstuffs bearing insignias of the UNICEF...or the ICRC....95 percent
of the population has very little to eat....
...the foodstuffs
that remained in Cambodia were "partially rotten, especially the
rice...because it took on water on the boats and during unloading....
In the 1980s deserters...reported having accompanied convoys of rice, cloth, or medications bound for Vietnam.
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