1.   Accounts from survivors Thursday suggested the attack was a vicious act of banditry rather then a guerrilla action, and illustrated the lack of security in the Cambodian countryside.

2.   Hundreds of destitute farmers have poured into the capital this week as the Cambodian countryside has been severely inundated for the second straight year.

3.   Millions of anti-personnel mines scattered about the Cambodian countryside from decades of warfare kill or maim hundreds of people every year.

4.   The Cambodian countryside was secretly bombed by the United States during the war because the Nixon administration believed the North Vietnamese were using neutral Cambodia as a sanctuary.

5.   The annual floods have saturated much of the Cambodian countryside along the banks of the Mekong River.

6.   In the speech to parliament, Evans said the security situation in the Cambodian countryside was uncertain given the potential for rapid change.

7.   Millions of mines were planted across the Cambodian countryside during the civil war.

8.   The Khmer Rouge guerrillas Friday disputed suggestions it would take decades to remove millions of lethal mines from the Cambodian countryside, saying three months would be sufficient.