Extract from:
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Joint Communique
Communique of the 19th. ASEAN ministerial meeting
manila
23-24 June '86
The Foreign Ministers were
across-the-border
shelling
hundreds of thousands of Kampucheans.
also apprised of the numerous
incidents from Occupied
Kampuchea into Thailand as well as
months.
incursions conducted by Vietnamese troops during the past 12
These incidents inflicted heavy casualties among the
civilian Kampuchean population sheltered along
the
Thai-
Kampuchean border.
31.
The incident of 29 May 1986 also witnessed the shelling
of a civilian Kampuchean evacuation camp at Khao Yai which
is
under the care of the United Nations Border Relief Operation
(UNBRO) almost four kilometers inside Thai
territory. Eleven
Kampucheans died while some 50 persons, mostly the elderly, women
and children, sustained serious injuries. The Foreign Ministers
further demanded that the Vietnamese authorities cease and desist
forthwith their attacks against Kampuchean civilians im UNBRO-
supervised camps inside Thailand.
32.
Since November 1985.
over a quarter of a miliion of
Kampuchean civilians have had to be evacuated to camps inside
Thailand as a result of these
continuing military operations
conducted against the people of Kampuchea by Vietnamese forces.
Furthermore, some 200,000 Thai villagers in these border areas
had also to be relocated for their own safety.
33.
Since the invasion of Kampuchea in 1978, the Foreign
noted that hundreds of thousands of Indochinese
refugees and displaced persons were still being sheltered and
Ministers
cared for in the ASEAN countries.
They expressed serious concern