From: edwind@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (THANH NGUYEN)
Subject: Go back to Cambodia...
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Date: 17 Nov 1992 10:29 EST  

In article <1992Nov16.145148.10616@news.media.mit.edu>, you write...
> 
Hi all!

After reading the enclosed article, my gut feeling is that Vietnam has 
every right to send troups back to Cambodia and wipe out the Khmer Rouge 
one for all.  It was justifiable for the U.S. to invade Granada and Panama
to protect a handful of U.S. citizens living there.  It is even more 
justifiable for Vietnam to go back to Cambodia to protect more than a 
million Vietnamese civilians there.  But, before we go back to Cambodia, we 
must get the support of U.N. and neigboring countries in the region - just 
like the U.S. did in Panama and Iraq.  Last time Vietnam could not get rid 
of them because the U.S., China, and Thailand provided them safe heaven and 
support.  But, now the international condition has changed dramatically and 
NO ONE wants to be associated with the murderous Khmer Rouge, therefore, I 
hope we can get the international support to wipe them out one for all.

Those are my opinions.  I welcome yours.  What do you think Vietnam should 
do to protect our people in Cambodia???   


>11/11
> 
>VIETNAM PROTESTS OVER KHMER ROUGE KILLINGS
> 
>    HANOI, Nov 12, Reuter - Vietnam condemned Khmer Rouge guerrillas for the
>"barbarous massacre" of 11 Vietnamese fishermen in Cambodia last month, saying
>the Maoist rebels were bent on destroying a United Nations peace plan.
>    U.N. authorities who are trying to implement the peace plan have said Khmer
>Rouge soldiers were seen leading the fishermen, their hands bound, into a 
>forest on October 3.
>    The 11 were later found dead from shots to the head, most likely fired at
>close range, said a spokesman for the U.N. Transitional Authority in Cambodia
>(UNTAC). Three other Vietnamese fishermen are missing, believed killed.
>    The Vietnam-Cambodia Friendship Association in Hanoi issued a declaration 
>on Wednesday condemning the Khmer Rouge for the killings and for ignoring
>international requests that it comply with the U.N. peace plan by disarming and
>respecting free elections.
>    "...The fact that the Khmer Rouge continue to carry out barbarous massacres
>of Vietnamese residents in Cambodia... is a gross challenge to the law and
>international opinion, hinders the peace process in Cambodia, and destroys
>friendship and cooperation between the Vietnamese and Cambodian people," said
>the declaration, quoted by the state-run Vietnam News Agency.
>    The Khmer Rouge is the only one of four warring groups -- including two
>other guerrilla factions and the Cambodian government -- to refuse to disarm, 
>to allow its guerrillas to be placed in cantonments and to help the U.N. 
>organise elections.
>    The murder of the fishermen was the latest attack by the Khmer Rouge on
>ethnic Vietnamese in Cambodia. UNTAC says the guerrillas have waged a campaign
>of racial hatred against Vietnamese settlers.
>    Invading Vietnamese troops toppled a Khmer Rouge government in January 1978
>that had wiped out more than a million Cambodians by execution, starvation or
>disease since taking power in 1975.