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...latent menace, what happened at that army camp on the Thai-Malaysian border is mundanely commonplace. In Thailand and Cambodia scores of illicit arms exchanges happen every day, some of them for as little as one or two pistols, others for crates holding several thousand Chinese-manufactured AK-47s, still encased in a thick layer of protective green grease. The two countries are the spring from which a flood tide of weapons - pistols, automatic rifles, rocket launchers, mortars, even the occasional light artillery piece - flows to every corner of Southeast Asia. The weapons are the lifeblood of the region...
...Further down the avenue, opposite the National Gallery of Art, Terry Pridemore and George Brown were getting reacquainted with the spirit of rebellion after 28 years. "This is my first protest since Nixon bombed Cambodia in 1972," said Brown, 46. Both men are Washington locals but claim they haven't felt stirred to come out and protest anything. Now they're fired up and when the parade's security advance drives past they deliver loud boos and hisses...
...history through which the principal adversary of the Vietnamese has always been China. Indeed, six years after the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, Hanoi and Beijing fought a brief border war after Beijing sought to "punish" Vietnam for ejecting the Beijing-aligned regime of Pol Pot from power in neighboring Cambodia. (The Chinese, in that encounter, suffered what might politely be termed a thrashing.) And in recent years both countries have laid claim to the Spratly Islands, a disputed, possibly oil-rich archipelago in the South China Sea. Vietnamese wariness of the power of their much larger neighbor may indeed create...
Such a response would effectively punish Zadvydas for the circumstances of his birth. A more reasonable response was taken by the 9th Circuit in deciding the case of Kim Ho Ma, a Cambodian immigrant who served a prison term for manslaughter. The U.S. has no repatriation agreement with Cambodia, so there is no reasonable probability that Ma will ever be returned. Rather than keep him in prison forever, or until Cambodia relents, the appeals court interpreted immigration law so as to require the INS to release him subject to parole-like requirements, including regular meetings with officers and strict travel...
Power decried what she said was a move away from value-based judgements regarding intervention in favor of decisions based on national security. She pointed to four cases of genocide in the modern world--Cambodia, Iraq, Bosnia and Rwanda--in which a vocal minority opposed to U.S. intervention won out against a passive majority...