Meanwhile: When the Khmer Rouge came to kill in Vietnam

Meanwhile: When the Khmer Rouge came to kill in Vietnam

(EXCERPT) James Pringle IHT Tuesday, January 6, 2004

BA CHUC, Vietnam Before the Vietnam War, Cambodians used to trudge
across the border into this nondescript town in Vietnam's Mekong Delta
to trade. During the war, supplies for Viet Cong forces also came this
way. That's why the landscape is cratered and often sparse in
vegetation, the result of American bombing and use of the herbicide
Agent Orange.

Especially after the war spread into Cambodia, Vietnamese communist
forces assisted their Cambodian co-revolutionaries, the Khmer Rouge.

But the large force of armed Khmer Rouge that entered Ba Chuc, four
miles from the border, on April 18, 1978, was different. And it was
two mysterious "Chinese beauties" carrying rifles that Ha Thi Nga, 64,
remembers most as destroying her family.

"These two beautiful Chinese girls came with th...

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