WORLD IN BRIEF : CAMBODIA : Slayings Send Many Vietnamese Fleeing
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Most of the 20,000 ethnic Vietnamese living on Tonle Sap lake in central Cambodia have fled the country after last month’s massacres by Khmer Rouge forces, a U.N. official said. U.N. navy commander John Leighton said about 13,000 have left the area, crossing the border into Vietnam or heading toward Phnom Penh. The Vietnamese villagers, many of whom have lived in Cambodia for generations, started leaving after at least 46 people were killed in March.
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