CHAPTER SIXON NEUTRALITY:
“...as defined by international law, specifically the Hague Convention of 1907, which states that, ‘A neutral country has the obligation not to allow its territory to be used by a belligerent. If the neutral country is unwilling or unable to prevent this, the other belligerent has the right to take appropriate counteraction.’ ”
—Harry G. Summers, Jr.,
Viet Nam War Almanac
IT WAS SEVEN WEEKS before Nang laid eyes on Bok Roh. For seven weeks the energy released from escaping death propelled him. He had never felt freer, never as a Khmer boy, never as a conscript, never as a yothea of Angkar Leou. As he approached his thirteenth birthday he was free to live, free to die, free to kill. He was strong and highly trained in all the survival arts—mental as well as phy
