Paris Peace Accords 23 Oct. 1991

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

[Vietnamization] CAMBODIA: A Shattered Society - The Vietnamese Occupation and the Resistance - plundering Cambodian peasants


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

...The harvest was reduced by a portion that sometimes exceeded 50 percent, taken by the state without any compensation at all or purchased at a low price....
Vietnam...transported it to Vietnam in barges and boats.... Sometimes, "Vietnamese soldiers help themselves in the peasants' fields, and if we say anything, they reply: This land doesn't belong to you; it's the land we liberated."... "The Vietnamese entered all the houses of the village in September-October 1985...and pulled out the fencing...."

...Vietnamese settlers trafficked in clothing, plates and dishes, bicycles and radios; they paid insignificant taxes while Khmers paid ten times more...



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