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...RATIFIED. An AGREEMENT between the United Nations and the Cambodian government to create an international tribunal to try former leaders of the murderous Khmer Rouge regime; in Phnom Penh. After almost six years of negotiations and delay, the 107 members present in Cambodia's 123-seat assembly voted unanimously to approve the proceedings, the focus of which will probably be on seven alleged former leaders from the brutal reign of Pol Pot. They are expected to be tried for atrocities committed from 1975 to 1979, when an estimated 2 million Cambodians were executed, starved or tortured to death...
...Sihanouk does step down, it may be because he's tired of trying to mediate among his country's warring political factions. "He's upset with the evolution of the country," says Thun Saray, a Cambodian political analyst. Sihanouk, once Cambodia's dominant political force, set up the royalist Funcinpec party now run by his son Prince Norodom Ranariddh, but the prince is not the political operator his father was. Prime Minister Hun Sen is now firmly in control: he overthrew the prince in a 1997 coup and has since won two controversial elections. In August, Hun Sen persuaded Ranariddh...
...RELEASED. KEVIN DOYLE, editor of the Cambodia Daily and reporter for TIME, by Cambodian officials after being detained for more than 36 hours for alleged "human trafficking" while reporting on Montagnard refugees; in Ratanakiri province. Doyle, along with another journalist and a human-rights worker, was held by military authorities in northeast Cambodia, where hundreds of Montagnards fleeing Vietnam are attempting to reach the safety of a shelter provided by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees...
...Cambodia, and many were subsequently resettled in the U.S. (Some 1,000 made the journey Stateside following the 2001 protests.) Another exodus to Cambodia has now begun. TIME has met more than 160 would-be refugees trapped in wet, mosquito-infested jungles, afraid of being rounded up by Cambodian police and repatriated. They are battling hunger and illness. "We came so that the international community would help us," says a Gia Lai man in Cambodia's Ratanakiri province. But so far, no help has come. Still, says another, "It is better to die here than in Vietnam...
...REAPPOINTED. HUN SEN, as Cambodian Prime Minister; by the country's King Norodom Sihanouk, after a political stalemate that left the country without a government for nearly a year; in Phnom Penh. Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party (CPP) received the most votes in last July's election but was short of winning the two-thirds of parliamentary seats required to govern alone. Two days before Hun Sen was sworn in, military police surrounded the home of party rival Chea Sim, acting head of state and CPP president, forcing him to flee the country...