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Cambodia: Irresistible Force vs. Immovable Object |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--FIVE NATIONS UNDER SIEGE |
| Author: Douglas Pike |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1986 |
| Size: 1,667 Words, 9,945 Characters |
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The year 1985 began inauspiciously for the Cambodians in early January when full-scale warfare suddenly erupted with one of the most vicious military assaults by Hanoi during its six year effort to subdue Cambodia. Vietnamese troops, planes, and tanks struck at guerrilla bases and refuge enclaves along the entire Cambodian-Thai border.
So determined was the on-slaught that some observers in Bangkok were led to the initial assessment that 1985 would go down in the history books as the year Vietnam achieved final victory over Cambodia.
But the guerrillas managed to hold. The attack expended itself, the rain came, and Cambodia settled in for another year of Vietnamese military occupation and resistance against it.
After the initial bad start for the anti-Vietnamese forces...
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...her great antipathies of the world: Arab-Jewish, Hindu-Moslem, Greek-Turkish. It serves an endless fuel for the fires of Khmer hatred against the Vietnamese. Balanced against this is the equally old and implacable martial behavior of the Vietnamese, the product of centuries of praetorian influence. Cambodia thus has become a classic case of an irresistible force against an immovable object.
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