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...history of Cambodia over the past 30 years has been a succession of tragedies: war, a horrific "peace"--as many as a million people perished during the "killing fields" rule of Pol Pot's communist Khmer Rouge--followed by a 10-year occupation by neighboring Vietnam. But there was one moment of true hope: in May 1993, 90% of the electorate went to polling booths to elect a government. It seemed that Cambodia was beginning to wake from its nightmare...
...very long time. Tanks and uniformed teens with guns were once more out on the streets of Phnom Penh, the capital, and the government was back in the business of executing its enemies. Tourists and foreign businessmen fled any way they could. After four years of faltering promise, Cambodia took a large backward step, and Phnom Penh had a whiff of Saigon in 1975, as timorous Cambodians approached foreigners with the plea: "Can you help...
Diplomats played games in describing what happened in Cambodia, but it was simply a coup. Because of its tangled politics, the country had two poles of administrative and military power. Last week the stronger faction, led by former Khmer Rouge cadre Hun Sen, overthrew "co-Prime Minister" Prince Norodom Ranariddh, who escaped in advance of the tanks. "The international community gave them [Cambodians] a chance to recover from the ravages of civil war," said former U.S. Congressman Stephen Solarz, an architect of the $2 billion U.N. effort that stabilized the country in advance of the 1993 election, "and they appear...
...BANGKOK: Cambodia's Prince Norodom Ranariddh agreed today to end his armed resistance to Hun Sen, the nation's new strongman who ousted Ranariddh in a bloody coup July 5. Under the deal, reached by members of Ranariddh's royalist party and foreign ministers representing the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, an economic bloc comprising several regional countries, military operations will cease and a caretaker government will be formed comprising the prince's party and Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party until elections next year. The deal also gives King Norodom Sihanouk, Ranariddh's father, authority over the armed...
PNOMH PENH: As gunfire echoed through the streets of the capital, Cambodia began to descend once more into the isolated international pariah state it had been under the Khmer Rouge. Three days after Second Prime Minister Hun Sen took over in a bloody coup, troops went door-to-door through Phnom Penh's largest hotel today, hunting down opposition legislators and arresting them. At least one of Hun Sen's vocal critics was shot and killed while in police custody. "He was arrested by the government troops and he has died," said General Khieu Sopheak. The blithe efficiency...