Hundreds of flimsy house boats were moving down the Tonle Sap, the river flowing from the Great Lake, toward Phnom Penh as Vietnamese families fled Khmer Rouge guerrillas who have threatened to kill Vietnamese settlers in Cambodia and are blamed for two massacres.
The brown mass of houseboats with woven bamboo domes were roped together in groups of 20 to , pulled down the river by tiny tug boats. The Khmer Rouge, which dropped out of the U. While one convoy of about floating houses approached the capital Thursday, another boats had moved south of Phnom Penh, and had crossed the border, U.
The United Nations has dubbed the naval patrols Operation Safe Passage, and acting naval commander John Leighton of Britain has committed of his troops to ensuring that the refugees pass safely through the rivers of central Cambodia.
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