Vietnam-Cambodia border dispute

Vietnam-Cambodia border dispute

PHNOM PENH (AP): A Cambodian student group urged Vietnam on
Tuesday to help reduce the number of Vietnamese illegal
immigrants.

A letter from the Democratic Front of Khmer Students and
Intellectuals also drew attention to unresolved border disputes
and called, without elaboration, for Vietnam to withdraw
intelligence agents operating in Cambodia.

Several members of the group went to the Vietnamese Embassy to
deliver the letter, but no diplomat came out to receive them.

Anti-Vietnamese feeling is widespread among Cambodians, who
hold a traditional distrust of their much larger neighbor to the
east, popularly believed to covet Cambodian territory.

The sentiment was fueled by Vietnam's military occupation of
Cambodia from 1979-89.