Thailand reports Viets mine border with Cambodia
Washington Times | 3 Feb. 1986
[excerpts]
Vietnamese troops are mining the Thai-Cambodian border and forcing some 80,000 Cambodian civilians to erect bamboo and barbed wire barricades...
...the Vietnamese apparently forced the civilians from their homes deep in the Cambodian interior and brought them, perhaps on foot, hundreds of miles to the frontier.
"Our intelligence tells us that at least 80,000 Cambodian civilians, maybe more, are constructing bamboo and barbed wire barricades while the Vietnamese troops plant the mines," the military source said. "We're also hearing that many of those civilians are dying of malaria and other diseases."...
The Vietnamese, the Thai source said, appear determined to mine most, if not all, of the Thai-Cambodian border...
No comments:
Post a Comment