Canadian Reuters Reporter, Sheldon Turcott, Predicts Vietnamese Invasion of Cambodia (October 12th, 1978) (Includes Footage of PAVN Repelling Khmer Rouge Forces near the Border)

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1. TURCOTT: “These are Vietnamese regulars, engaged in fire fight with Cambodian Khmer Rouge only 200 meters away. They are trying to repel the Cambodians, who have been raiding villages inside Vietnam, committing almost unbelievable atrocities: slaughtering men, women and children in the still of night, and mutilating their bodies.”

   “The terror tactics are driving peasants from their homes, taking with them their few meagre possessions, leaving untended thousands of acres of much-needed riceland. In Tay Ninh province alone, more than a thousand villagers have been killed in the raids which began here a year ago. The remains of market places of the once-crowded villages stand as mute evidence of the agony that is Vietnam today.”

   “Vietnam has been fighting a defensive war. We saw Russian built T-54 tanks, [convoys of all manner(?)], artillery and soldiers moving up to the front, waiting only until the rainy season end by next month, for what probably will be an invasion of Cambodia. Until the invasion, the Vietnamese are running sweeps through the bush and jungle. Using Russian and left-over American arms the Vietnamese are fighting a conventional war against a country that they themselves completely impacted its only (indistinguishable)

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