- Title: KHMER REPUBLIC: REFUGEES RETURN TO DEVASTATED HAMLETS IN FORMER BATTLE AREA
- Date: 5th February 1972
- Summary: 1. Tracking shots showing villagers on carts along road 8 ft 2. Truck and Jeep to camera and past 14 ft 3. Shots of wrecked hamlet 25 ft 4. Two refugees walk into hamlet 28. ft 5. CU Old Man PAN to monks and other returnees gathered 32 ft 6. Returnees seated as Governor of Kandal addresses them 41 ft 7. Woman in hammock with
- Embargoed: 20th February 1972 12:00
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- Location: NEAR PHNOMPENH
- Country: Cambodia
- Reuters ID: LVA9DNALGZE4RM92FLEG72OZYU3H
- Story Text: In the Khmer Republic, villagers are returning to what little is left of their devastated homes around the north-west approaches to Phnompenh were some of the fiercest fighting of the Khmer war took place two months ago.
Whole villages were pulverised by government forces when they tried to dislodge the heavily-entrenched Communists. But, as always, the inhabitants showed little pessimism as they inspected the rubble that was once their homes. They set to work to erect small huts where they would live until they could build new homes
Here in the Phnom Baset (pronounced bas-set), about 18 miles north-west of the capital, the Governor of Kandal Province, Lieut-Colonel Kheang (pronounced kee-eng), was on hand to greet the returnees.
The villagers had little but what they carried. They were given rice and other essentials to tide them over until they were resettled. And, more importantly, they were also given assurances that the ??? military would remain in the area to protect them.
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