Tonle Sap, Kampuchea - 1990

In 1990, the Tonle Sap region of Kampuchea remains largely quiet compared to the more volatile border areas and western jungles. The Vietnamese Volunteer Army, continuing its support for the fragile revolutionary government despite earlier promises to withdraw in 1989, maintains a steady presence across the lake and surrounding settlements. While daily life has mostly resumed for local communities, remnants of opposing forces still operate in remote flooded forests and isolated shorelines, carrying out occasional raids and maintaining a low-level insurgency that lingers beneath the region’s fragile calm.