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
...peasants...we're sent into unhealthy and mine-infested forests.... A
peasant from the Bakan (Pursat) region stated, "...1985, my husband
was called for clearing land..... He
came back with malaria. He said there were explosions from mines. Si, a
young girl of thirteen who was clearing land with my husband, died along
with six other persons from neighboring villages."...
...cleared mines without any instruments at all.... The most fortunate
survivors of explosions came back missing a leg: "The fate of these
millions of amputees is tragic. Every foreigner stationed in Phnom Penh
since 1985 is struck by the sight of more and more invalids begging on
the streets and in the markets of the capital everyday..."
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