Border aid to hungry restarts
NZPA Bangkok Feeding of the starving Khmer people across Thailand’s eastern border with Kampuchea is to be reFrank Loy, deputy American co-ordinator for refugee affairs,, has said. The cross-border feeding operation by international relief agencies inside Thailand was halted last week during crucial negotiations between the agencies and Thai authorities. The dispute arose over the distribution of food to areas controlled by Khmer Rouge guerrillas, supporters of the ousted Communist regime of Pol
Pot who are fighting a hit-and-run war against the Vietnamese occupation forces in their country. Food distribution is now to continue north of the key Thai border town of Aranyaprathet only, where relief officials say they are reasonably certain the aid will go to Khmer civilians, not Khmer Rouge fighters. “Ox-cart people,” ■ those who arrived at the border from inside western Kampuchea in bullock-drawn carts, will be supplied with rice and other food to take back to their families and dependents.
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