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Jan 7, 1973 · B-52s raid N Vietnamese panhandle region, Jan 6, striking targets near key junctions and storage areas of mil equipment destined for the South; small US planes make 115 strikes on 4 southern provs ...
Aug 7, 1973 · WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (Reu ters) — The Defense Department said today that a B‐52 accidentally bombed a Cam bodian town southwest o Phnom Penh during a mission in support of Governmen orces ...
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Feb 28, 1973 · Town Reported Retaken On the east bank of the Mekong River, 32 miles southeast of Phnom Penh, the Government said its troops had recaptured the town of Phumi Banam, which had been under enemy ...
- The Sack of Snuol
- Looting Or Lies?
- Blaming The Messengers
- The Butcher of Snuol
On April 28, 1970, Nixon issued an order that was opposed by his secretary of state and secretary of defense but endorsed by Kissinger: The U.S. military would invade Cambodia. Two days later, in a televised address to the nation, Nixon announced the assault and offered a history lesson loaded with lies. Since 1954, when an international agreement ...
While Arnett’s dispatch from Snuol was published in its entirety around the world, the versions carried by American news organizations were missing a critical piece of reportage: any mention of the looting. The AP had decided, in the wake of the killings at Kent State, to censor the story. “Let’s play it cool,” Ben Bassett, the late, longtime forei...
In June 1970, the Army concluded its investigation into the sack of Snuol. About half the structures in Snuol were “destroyed or damaged” by U.S. bombs, napalm, tank rounds, and small arms fire, according to an inspector general’s report. The Army also discovered more dead Cambodians than reporters had seen, noting that troops found 11 bodies “pres...
In June 1970, an Army spokesperson announced that the looting in Snuol was limited to “several, perhaps five or six, cases of soda pop, which were consumed.” A motorcycle that was taken had been returned to its owner, the Army said, and a tractor would be returned once its owner was located. No mention was made of the theory that the press had pill...
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The writer overheard ;one of the last conversations between a Khmer. ground observer and an American pilot on the morning of August 15, 1973. -the final date on which American planes flew combat missions over Cam- bodia. "The enemy right now, they are hiding in a structure along the high-.
May 23, 2023 · Members of a Cambodian family in the ruins of their home near Neak Luong on Aug. 7, 1973. Photo: AP. Ny Sarim had lived through it all. Violence. Loss. Privation. Genocide. Her first husband was ...
