"Vietnamese soldiers had been slowly trickling back home for years but it wasn’t until the 9th of September in 1989 that the final three divisions left Battambang. To mark this auspicious occasion a leaving ceremony was performed around Battambang’s famous Dambang Statue (at that time looking very worse for wear) and the locals schools were duly emptied to provide an appropriately large and impressive audience."
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I always look forward to a new Chhay Vet article, his simple, matter of fact, anecdotes about the darkest period of Khmer history.
Doubly interesting to me because they are based on Battambang, this is where Heng and her family are from.
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