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Armed anti-communists tried to enter Vietnam

HANOI - Cambodia has expelled a group of armed ethnic Vietnamese who were recently caught trying to enter neighbouring Vietnam to stir violence, a Hanoi official said on Thursday.
Le Sy Vuong Ha, deputy director of the Foreign Ministry Press Department, said the group were former soldiers of the U.S.-backed Saigon regime, which was defeated by communist forces in the Vietnam War that ended in 1975.

``Recently a number of Vietnamese elements who used to serve in the Saigon army entered Cambodia from other countries to attempt to transport weapons and people into Vietnam to carry out destructive actions,'' Ha told a news briefing.
``Cambodia arrested them and expelled them to the countries they came from.'' Ha gave no details on the nationalities of those expelled.

Ha said they had tried to smuggle other anti-communists into Vietnam through a land border with Cambodia, but gave no details about when the incident occurred, how many people were involved or the type of weapons they carried.
The Hong Kong-based Far Eastern Economic Review magazine, in its edition published on Thursday, put the group at several Vietnamese. It quoted diplomats as saying they were trying to smuggle motorbikes packed with explosives into Vietnam.
Many Vietnamese who fled Vietnam during the decade-long conflict or the subsequent economic misery have become citizens of their host country and maintain a deep hostility toward the communist authorities in Hanoi.

However, there have been few incidents of political violence in recent years, and most overseas anti-communist groups prefer to make their case on the Internet.

Reuters - August 19, 1999.