Word: cambodia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...entitle it to a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, which Tokyo wants. To assume one, however, Japan would have to overcome its scruples about sending troops abroad, so that it could participate in any peacekeeping operations it might vote on. Japan did send 600 troops to Cambodia to repair roads and bridges under a U.N. peace mandate, but only after a bruising political fight that the Miyazawa government has neither the will nor the strength to repeat...
Constancto Pinto, secretary of the Executive Committee of the National Council of Maubere Resistance (CNRM) characterized the atrocities as "proportionally worse than the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia...
EVEN ITS STAUNCHEST ALLY COULD NO LONGER SUPport Cambodia's most violent guerrilla faction. China's vote last Monday made unanimous a Security Council resolution to proceed with national elections in May -- even though the Khmer Rouge will field no candidates. The decision apparently eliminates any chance for the Maoist group to be included in a coalition government, though no one can predict what will happen after the 20,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force leaves. The Khmer Rouge, who were responsible for the death of at least a million Cambodians during their 1975-79 reign of terror, made clear they...
...Leary lacks the oratorical grace of Gray (Swimming to Cambodia) or the comic wisdom of monologist Eric Bogosian (Talk Radio), but he's learning. "When Leary first started doing stand-up, like all of us -- he sucked," says comic Eddie Brill, Emerson '80, a friend. That began to change after Leary's father died of a heart attack in 1985. In response to such an event, says Brill, "you can either go into a fetal position or do what Leary did -- just lash out. He became really deep and really funny...
...MONTHS, THE 22,000-STRONG UNITED NAtions Transitional Authority in Cambodia has responded to complaints of cease-fire violations by claiming that it was powerless to stop them. Meanwhile, the Khmer Rouge have systematically enlarged the area they control. Now the Hun Sen government has taken matters into its own hands, retaking much of the lost territory in a large-scale military operation in the northern and western parts of the country. Hun Sen has offered to withdraw his troops behind a buffer zone that would be policed by U.N. troops. UNTAC officials declined; though the U.N. has the firepower...