From: hrcoord@igc.org (Human Rights Coordinator)
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Subject: Murder in Cambodia
Date: 27 Jul 92 16:32:00 GMT
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From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: Murder in Cambodia

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                           upi 07-25-92 00:20 aed

Vietnamese families massacred in Cambodian village
                             By SUE DOWNIE
   PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (UPI) - Two Vietnamese families, including a 7-
day-old baby, were slaughtered in a village in southwest Cambodia in
what a U.N. official described as a ``gruesome crime.''
   A group of 30 unidentified men dressed in military uniforms entered
the village of Tukmeas, about 80 miles southwest of Phnom Penh, Tuesday
yelling ``we want to kill all the Vietnamese enemy,'' a U.N. spokesmen
said.
   A 7-day-old baby was ``smashed to the ground,'' a man was
disembowelled and other family members - including children aged 7, 9,
12 and 16 - were shot, the spokesman said Friday.
   In all, eight people were killed and two injured, the spokesman said,
quoting U.N. military observers who went to the village.
   ``This was learly an attack against Vietnamese people,'' said the
spokesman for the U.N. Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC), which
is overseeing implementation of a Cambodian peace accord signed in Paris
last October to end 13 years of civil war.
   Villagers told the UNTAC observers that after the slaughter, the men
ran toward a hideout of the Khmer Rouge, although a U.N. official in
Phnom Penh stressed there is no evidence that the attack was carried out
by the Maoist faction.
   Another UNTAC source said Khmer Rouge fighters were captured by
government police near the village two days before, and the massacre may
have been in retaliation.
   The Khmer Rouge, the largest of the three former resistance groups
which fought the Vietnamese-installed government, have repeatedly made
public anti-Vietnamese statements, and have said that all illegal
Vietnamese civillians should be deported from Cambodia.
   UNTAC chief Yasushi Akashi Thursday appealed to all four factions to
``refrain from taking any action or making any public statement which
might arouse racial unrest,'' a warning diplomats say was aimed at the
Khmer Rouge.
   The U.N. spokesman also revealed Friday that three U.N. policemen
were attacked Thursday night while driving on a country road about 60
miles southwest of Phnom Penh, and two received gunshot wounds.
   One of the wounded was taken to the U.N. field hospital in Phnom
Penh, while the other received a minor injury.
   The three Algerians were heading towards Kampot, 90 miles from the
capital, when 12 unidentified assailants attacked their U.N.-marked
vehicle near Chhuk village, the U.N. spokesman said.
   ``We think it was a mistake because as soon as they attacked, they
started screeming 'UNTAC,' then fled,'' the spokesman said.
   Bandit attacks are common on country roads, but this is believed to
be the first on a U.N. vehicle.