Word: cambodia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...include free passage out of China for Fang Lizhi, the dissident astrophysicist who took refuge in the U.S. embassy in Beijing last June and is still there; the lifting of martial law in Beijing and Tibet; Chinese pressure on the murderous Khmer Rouge to allow a political settlement in Cambodia, and amnesty for pro- democracy demonstrators...
...Prince defended his position that a transitional government comprising the four rival Khmer factions should preside over the election of a new leadership, following a verified withdrawal of Vietnamese forces from Cambodia. But he then offered a glimmer of a concession: a recent Australian ! proposal, which skirts the issue of Khmer Rouge participation by placing the country under U.N. trusteeship, "merits consideration." However, he added, his Western supporters would have to join the Viet Nam-backed Phnom Penh government in making that a condition of a peaceful settlement...
...Khmer Rouge killed about 600,000 Cambodians--one-sixth of the population--during its rule from 1975-78, said Nayan Chanda, senior associate partner of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Vietnam invaded Cambodia in 1978 but has recently withdrawn its troops from the country...
...reason we are here tonight is becausepeople are still dying in Cambodia, and if theKhmer Rouge sneak their way into power because theWest considers them as a part of a legitimategovernment, there will be more bloodshed," Chandrasaid...
David Hawk, director of the CambodiaDocumentation Commission, criticized the currentU.S. policy which proposes a peace solutionfounded on power-sharing by the four groupscontending to rule Cambodia...