May 30. 1983] Tlx NEw INDOCHINA WAR (By Al Santoli) ARANYPRATHrr. THAILAND.-The killing begins again. At Phnom Chat. about two kilometers inside Cambodia near Taphraya District. it is two hours before dawn on March 31. Without warning. the silent cluster of grass huts and blue plastic tent shelters that house twenty thousand sleeping Cambodian refugees erupts in violent explosions. As Vietnamese artillery shells slam into the panicstricken community. halfdressed parents and startled grandparents grab crying children and throw what belongings they can carry into cloth sacks. They begin a twomile race against the rising flames and the flying shrapnel as their fragile world collapses around them.
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