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VIETNAM WAR: Victim of a massacre by Cambodian government troops are treated on April 9, 1970. Those attacked were ethnic Vietnamese who had lived in Cambodia for decades but were blamed by the Lon Nol government for its mistakes in the anti-Communist war. Government troops had opened fire on unarmed civilians because of false fears that the ethnic Vietnamese villagers were aiding the North Vietnamese. INSPIRING memoirs from a legendary war ABC cameraman who filmed first-hand the horrors of the Vietnam War have been released as an English-language book for the first time. In this new autobiography, ABC???s top cameraman reveals incredible insights into the devastating war which raged between the USA and Vietnam across a decade in the mid-20th Century. The horrific footage ABC brought back from the war was ground-breaking, and was used by the anti-Vietnam movement to eventually force the US government to end the war. Entitled ???On the Frontlines of the Television War??? by Yasutsune ???Tony??? Hirashiki, the book, the Japanese-version of which is award-winning, has been published by Casemate. ABC News / mediadrumworld.com