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Operation Flycatcher: short stories from Cambodia 1973-74

Although the complex slumbered out of world view for centuries Khao Phra Vihaan has not escaped the consequences of modern times. After the Khmer Rouge took power in Cambodia in 1975 and its subsequent defeat by the Vietnamese in 1978, remnants of the Khmer Rouge occupied the complex and surrounding forests . In doing this they seeded the local area and the complex itself with land mines , constructed bomb shelters and even installed some artillery pieces. from Isan Village