Word: cambodians
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...level playing field with President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party. Lost in a Storm AFGHANISTAN Officials said all 104 people on board an Afghan airliner that crashed in bad weather near Kabul were feared dead. Into Exile? CAMBODIA Opposition leader Sam Rainsy fled to Paris after the Cambodian National Assembly stripped him and two other M.P.s of parliamentary immunity. Rainsy, who is charged with defaming senior government figures, said he would return once he received details of the allegations against him. MEANWHILE IN CHINA ... Nothing to Crow About So much for the hen that lays the golden...
...British embassies in Cambodia, to life in prison; in Phnom Penh. The three men denied any involvement with the plot or the terrorist group, saying they had met Hambali?allegedly J.I.'s former operations chief?while working for a Saudi Arabian-funded charity that helped poor Cambodian Muslims. Hambali and two other foreigners, identified as Rousha Yasser and Ibrahim, were tried and sentenced in absentia...
Proceeds from sales of these silk scarves, hand woven in the Cambodian village of Robib, not only pay workers' wages, the profits also support local assistance programs. Go to villageleap.com...
...future communist leader read the works of Marx ("I didn't really understand them," he confessed) and, more usefully, a Stalinist political primer that urged "pitiless repression" of all enemies. Inspired in part by the French Revolution, Pol Pot's hotchpotch ideology was grounded in a warped version of Cambodian Buddhist theology and dreams of past national greatness. "If our people can make Angkor," he said, referring to the ancient Khmer empire, "they can make anything...
...Short is too good a writer to simply dismiss Pol Pot as an evil aberration. But his alternative argument?that brutality is somehow hardwired into Cambodian society?is not scholarly enough to be convincing. He makes his case largely by an unblinking focus on horror: children decapitated, lynch mobs eating their victims' fried livers, and so on. This attempt to place Pol Pot's wickedness in a wider psychohistorical context feels misguided rather than malicious, although Cambodian readers might feel differently...