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Three explosives found at Cambodia-Vietnam monument |
A homemade explosive device went off at a friendship monument in
Cambodia on Sunday, police said.
Three devices were found at the Cambodian-Vietnamese Friendship
Monument in Phnom Penh, police said, but no one was injured. The
device did not appear to contain any shrapnel, police said.
"It seems intentional," said Phnom Penh Police Chief Touch Narot.
There is still-strong anti-Vietnamese sentiment in Cambodia,
fuelled by resentment over neighboring Vietnam's past territorial
expansions.
Vietnam invaded Cambodia in 1978, ousted Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge
regime and occupied the country for a decade.
Although Vietnamese forces withdrew in 1989, many Cambodians are
suspicious of Hanoi's intentions, fearing it wants to take
Cambodian territory again.
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