“And now, since they have problems at home --overpopulated with nearly 62 KilLions-- and since Cambodia is underpopulated (5 millions) and weak bJt rich in agriculture , and when the Vietnamese lack fish, lack rice, lazk land in Vietnarr., they can find all those things in Cambodia. When they neerl tc have one par: cf their population leave Vietnam to occupy foreign land, they send them naturally to Laos and to Cambodia . . . they need what Hitler used to call a “vital space” : to expand the land to accommodate the surplus of their population inside Vietnam!’ Y a/ “The Vietnam People’s Army and its lofty international duty in friendly idmbodi a ” by General Le Due Anh, Connnandei-in-Chief of VfetIMJnese forces in Kdmpuched, and published by the Vietnam People’s Army mnthly magazine Tap Chi Qudn Doi Nhdn Dan (December 1984 I A/ His ROydl Highness Sdmdech NORODOM Sihdnouk, President of Democratic Kampuchea in his interview wf th Peter Mcgill, The Observer , Mdy 22,198s / . . . A/40/679 9117492 Enqlirh Page 4 B. VHE PROCESS OF VIETNAMIZATION OF KAMPUCHEA b, “The present situation in Kampuchea has been worsening as a result of the fk.t that over and above 200,000 Vietnamese soldiers and thousands of “technicians” and “advisors” of our country, from Hanoi, who control a part there are about GOO,OOO Vietnamese settlers who have been sent to our country to exploit our land and rice-fields, our villager, forests, lakes and rivers, our coasts and other natural resource~,~’ i/ 5. “The purpose of this transfer is to gradually populate Kampuchea with Vietnamese nationals and to conquer the Khmer people through sheer nurzbers with a view to reducing them to an ethnic minority in a Kampuchea to be incorporated in an “Indo-Chinese federation’ dominated by Vietnam, ‘It must be stressed that the Vietnamese settlers in question 