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
THAT TORTURE MAY CEASE
...
The better to control its opponents, the regime chose its subordinate
jailers from former Khmer Rouge guards, who were not likely to be moved
by pity....
"... Some bo doi had just killed three young girls
after raping them... I saw bo doi ask peasants for chickens; when the
peasants refused, the bo doi shot at the chickens and at the
inhabitants. Two people died... We saw bo doi seize young girls to rape
them...."
As if all of this is not enough, people were also endangered by the chemical weapons...
Problems of physical survival took precedence over all others. And the
massive arrival of Vietnamese settlers added to the daily concern if the
Khmers.
THE LEGALIZED SETTLEMENT OF VIETNAMESE CIVILIANS
...demographic colonization... In certain neighborhoods of Phnom
Penh...called Vietnamese neighborhoods., Vietnamese settlers
predominated. The authorities spoke of making the capital into a
Vietnamese city.
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