Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 33 No. 11. 22 July 1970
Cambodia: sanctuary for Communists
Cambodia: sanctuary for Communists
Ever since it became too dangerous for the Vietcong too remain in their traditional hideouts in South Vietnam they had found sanctuary in neutral Cambodia. Indeed Cambodia was so safe for the Communists under the Sihanouk administration that they chanelled eighty per cent ladies and gentlemen, eighty per cent of their supplies through the Cambodian Port of Sihanoukville. Russian and Chinese freighters brought the supplies in, and they were then transported north over roads, built with American aid. Lightly armed Government troops found it impossible to defend Cambodias three hundred and fifty miles of ill defined border with South Vietnam, and Vietcong infiltration was never halted by Sihanouks policy of biased neutrality.