Thousands; flee
NZPA Bangkok Large numbers of Kampuchean troops and civilians poured into Thailand at two points along the border yesterday, some of them ill and wounded after long marches and battles with Vietnamese-led forces in Kampuchea. Reporters at the scene said that about 5000 soldiers and civilians of the toppled Kampuchean regime of Pol Pot. entered Parai village and were disarmed by Thai ■authorities. The village was the site of a brutal 1977 massacre by Pol Pot: soldiers who crossed from Kam[puchea and killed 39 Thai villagers, most of them women and children. Sporadic fighting between the Poi Pot remnants and Vietnamese-led troops of the new Phnom Penh Government have been reported, but an expected drive against the Pol Pot side along the Thai border has not yet taken place. I
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