text: including school students and ci vi1 servants, on Sundays. It is difficult to admit that this construction is built to protect the Cambodian pupulatlon, for there are very few Khmer civilians. Apart from some small shopkeepers and state workers, this provincial chief-town is especially peopled by Vietnamese tradesmen and “bodoi ” who have transformed some pagodas in the city, such as Wat Kandal, Wat Sanqker, Wdt Kampher, into barracks and/or into political prisons. Lt is ti either by chance th& a strategic fence is built around Leach, the distri& chief+own of Phrwm Kravarrh, which has come under hot dtt acks of the Khmer Rouges since 1979 ard where t he Vi& namese have s& up their headquarters in the old buildings of the sub-prefe& ure. This is also the case with Siemreap Cit y which is the headquarters r>f one of the most impor- t ati bases of the Vi& namese army in Cambodia . There is ru more daub! possible when small St ronyholds should be built around the barracks s& up by the “bodol” o&&side the villages . ( . . .) GENEJALIZATTON AND OFFICIALIZATION OF LAEOLJRS KN SUPPORT UF MTLLTARY OPERATIONS According to Cambodian high officials, the first five years of the ,Aetnamese occupation (1979-1983) corresponded with a “smooth period”. At that time, Hanoi made attempts without much brutality, to put the popuidtion into its orbit while trying to win over the civi 1 servants who had not t 0 ‘:Jrry out manual labour. The result was meagre. If at the beginniny, on the whole, the people have willy-n;lly complied with the conscription, the feeling bstwet?n Khmcrs and occupiers on the contrary has not improved. The d tmosphere has betin worsening and the Vietnamese have had to resort to drastic solution. / . . . A DECXSI0N FRW HIGH LEVEL 
analysis: The text appears to be a report or analysis of the situation in Cambodia during the Vietnamese occupation in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It discusses the presence of Vietnamese troops, the transformation of pagodas into barracks and prisons, and the impact on the local population. The text also mentions the failure of Hanoi's attempts to win over the population and the worsening atmosphere between the Khmers and the occupiers.