European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Cambodia in suffering continues has Cally Ian i so me be City tie item tall a i men Ren Hewlit hive diplomatic support is the coalition s main source of support. Phenom penh a City where Tho population has climbed Back of about 600,000 after standing nearly deserted in the Khmer Rouge reign from 1975 until 1979, languishes in near Isota lion. It is reachable from the outside Only irom Vietnam or the Soviel Union. After the selective killing of City dwellers by the Khmer Rouge the population of the capital consists largely of country Folk who came in search of Relief food immediately after the vietnamese invasion. The streets Are still said Chheuy Kanha Deputy health minister. Most people Here Are new to the City. Life is hard for them. We Are trying to educate them especially in sanitation but we Are Short of rained people. The culture and education of Tho people Aro Chheuy Kanha said she did not know How Many people had Access to uncool Ammalee water. She said that he government was urging people to boil it but few did. Some Relief officials say they believe Hal not More than 1 percent of the population has Sale water we Don t have enough Money to repair Tho City said Kong som of. The american educated former agriculture minister who serves As a minis Lef assisting the Premier. The City is dirty. The sewage system overflows during the Rainy season " poverty appears to Alt ice All cambodians. The Standard wage is sess than $7 a month at the official rate of Exchange less than $2 at the More realistic Block Market Rale in addition he government Sells Rice toils employees Al below Market paces. As Well As granting occasional issues of clothing and other necessities Al reduced rates second jobs Are the Rule. A Low ranking Olli Cial said thai his Wile bought fruit in suburban markets and sold it Al slight profit in Tho City As Well As Lamg in sewing at night Tho markets ofic templing fruits and vegetables but at prices so High thai a month s wages would nol fill a shopping Basket the High Cost May explain Why medical Relief workers find cambodians eating and feeding their children an unbalanced diet consisting largely of Nee m which the country is nearly self sufficient Chheuy Kanha said that the cause was the ignorance of mothers in the past. However vegetables and Ruil were Staples of everybody s Sophie Bia cabe a French doctor with a Relief medical learn for children said that Maunu Lylion was the Mam health problem she said that surveys in the Cap,1al showed Hal 20 percent of children up to 5. Cais out suffered malnutrition severe enough to Al Lect their growth and thai 4 7 percent of children under 3 years 4 Bee Iland was Grossy in assigned to. By a , that he said to e All concerned Aboul organizing and Doc la no the populate and Aboul military and Secundy mailers the vietnamese hoops and he cambodian army that under their Lul Elage. Conducted of offensive in 1985 that eradicated 16 Camps on the cambodian Sido of Tho Border with Thailand from which the Khmer Flugo and smaller forces Loyal to a former Premier. Son Sann. Or the former chief of state Pence Norodom Sihanouk had Boon lighting the War has changed into what a senior communist official familiar with Vietnam s assessment described As the Battle Lor the villages " Tho Khmer Rouge Winch once bought irom the Border bases a la support irom the thai military and supplies torn China now operates in Small guerrilla groups de Pei inside Cambodia they also mount occasional terrorist attacks in cities according to an ambassador from a non communist country seven or eight Small chinese mines hidden in Booby traps exploded in the streets of phenom penh in june maiming children and Olhorn civilians the senior official said that Vietnam had entrusted Protection of the Border almost fully to the new cambodian army the troop so Rengh of which has nol been disclosed officially except of course Lour or live hots pols lie added. Vietnam s forces he said Are massed nearby and Rush to help the cambodians when needed Gen Tang Cong Man editor of the vietnamese army newspaper Ouan Doi nhan Dan. Said last May in an interview with a French repo Fler Hal the pol pot forces in the Interior were supplied by to main infiltration routes one runs South through the mountains of the Northern Border where Cambodia. Laos and Thailand meet the other from inc South stretches North irom the thai port of trial into South Western Cambodia the main routes linking phenom penh to Western Cambodia Are in a permanent slate of insecurity. Frallic to and from the Mam seaport Kampong som moves in escorted convoys in the Northeast according to the senior official. Chinese supplies reach not Only Khmer Louge units but Aro also taken to rebellious vietnamese Mountain tribes who cooperate with Tho Khmer Rouge cambodian mini Sleis and senior officials asserted that Iho War had Essen tally been won Security in Cambodia is boiler than elsewhere in the world said foreign minister Kong Korm in an interview filing acts of terrorism in Western capitals More critical communist diplomats and other foreign officials in phenom penh said that the rebels do nol threaten the regime As song As vietnamese troops remain but seriously weakened its efforts to raise to its feel a country that has been gravely damaged by its afflictions since if went from comparative peace to total War in 1970 Phi som penh is no longer the bet Tom cily it once was of photo i. Hen Toldi Ert ride to Iron Elfi the City. By 19.1987 the stars and stripes Page 15
