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 LEGALIZED SETTLEMENT OF VIETNAMESE CIVILIANS
...
Vietnamese civilians acquired Khmer nationality with privileges it
conferred, particularly the right to vote. Hanoi's plan called for
several million settlers, approximately one million of whom seem to have
been in place by close of the 1980s. (...reminiscent of the one applied
earlier in South Vietnam [Kampuchea Krom], where Hanoi's leaders had
sent Tonkinese civilians...]
...feared for their country's survival, all the more so because their borders were redrawn.
BAMBOO BARRIERS, THE NEW BOUNDARY MARKERS
"... They'd moved the boundary markers toward the interior of
Cambodia... Some villages that today are on the other side of the dike
[in Vietnamese territory] were in Khmer territory before the bo doi
moved the boundary markers."
... "...Vietnamese experts ask us
not to think about the old borders but to think only of the present
borders, those of the 'new Cambodia' that Vietnam came to watch over."
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