WORLD : Viet Soldiers Leave Cambodia
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BANGKOK, Thailand — Nearly 200 vessels carrying Vietnamese soldiers sailed past Cambodia’s capital of Phnom Penh on their way home today as part of a major troop withdrawal, the official Cambodian news agency reported.
The SPK agency said about 10,000 people, including Cambodian Communist Party officials and military officers, lined the banks of the Mekong River to bid farewell to soldiers of Division 339. The departing soldiers are among the 50,000 troops that Vietnam says are being sent home this year.
Vietnam invaded Cambodia in 1978 to drive out the communist Khmer Rouge, which massacred hundreds of thousands of people.
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