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
SOLDIERS CAME TO CONSCRIPT US
Conscription, compulsory for men from eighteen and thirty-five years of age, was extended to those younger than this...
"A group of about twenty of Heng Samrin's soldiers and give Vietnamese
came looking for us.... They had a list of names.... We weren't allowed
to go home to say good-bye to our families.... In Kandal province, they
conscripted eight hundred fifty students....taken to Nam Sap, near
[Thai] border."
Nam Sap was a dangerous place for these youths, exposed on the front line, often without arms, to Khmer Rouge soldiers....
Since the militia attracted few volunteers, sweeps of young boys and
girls were carried out in the villages.... "The Vietnamese came on
motorcycle during the day to hunt for young people--boys and girls--for
the militia. Trucks were waiting [outside the village] to take us
away."...
THAT TORTURE MAY CEASE
"...people were afraid because the Vietnamese brought their handcuffs even into the villages."...
The country was crisscross end with political prisons.... T, the initial letter of the Vietnamese word for prison...
..."It was the Vietnamese who beat me. The Khmers began it; they struck
really hard, but then, when the Vietnamese got mad, they took over and
hit even harder."
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