UN General Assembly
1986

"Pour years ago, in April 1982, I was allowed to go across the whole country, from Takeo near the Vietnamese border up to Sisophon at the Thai border. Bridges, railway stations and villages were strictly controlled by Vietnamese and Cambodian soldiers, but traffic was free and heavy. At present, journalists are allowed to go only up to Kompong Speu, about 50 kilometers from the capital, and those wishing to go to Siemreap and Angkor must take an Air Kampuchea Antonov 24 aircraft, flown by a Soviet crew. The roads are no longer safe. "Lack of security, resulting mainly from the activities (of the resistance forces] starts at the gates of Phnom Penh ... It is clear that they" - the national resistance forces - "are able to strike almost everywhere outside the towns. They mine roads, fire rocket-launchers at trucks and trains ... 'It is true that the military situation is not good,' admitted a Vietnamese official, who received me in the cool living room of a villa somewhere in Phnom Penh and who refused to be identified. 'The situation is net easy for us here. We have made a number of blunders, and we shall make them again, certainly. And you will not be convinced if I tell you that we are loved by everybody* ...