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...fear is that a political solution that included the Khmer Rouge would let Pol Pot subvert the administration from the inside while attacking it from the outside," said Solarz, referring to the dictator who ruled Cambodia in the mid 1970s...
...Khmer Rouge killed about 600,000 Cambodians--one-sixth of the population--during its rule from 1975-78, said Nayan Chanda, senior associate partner of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Vietnam invaded Cambodia in 1978 but has recently withdrawn its troops from the country...
...reason we are here tonight is becausepeople are still dying in Cambodia, and if theKhmer Rouge sneak their way into power because theWest considers them as a part of a legitimategovernment, there will be more bloodshed," Chandrasaid...
David Hawk, director of the CambodiaDocumentation Commission, criticized the currentU.S. policy which proposes a peace solutionfounded on power-sharing by the four groupscontending to rule Cambodia...
...many Cambodians, it doesn't matter whether they are living under [opposition co-leader] Lon Nol or Hun Sen; it's all the same," only, "They worry about their children having to fight a war," Dith Pran wrote in a New York Times Magazine piece on his return to Cambodia for the first time since his escape from the Khmer Rouge. While the U.S. may have to swallow its pride by accepting a diplomatic victory for the Vietnamese for the moment, everyone would benefit in the long run. Everyone, that is, except the Khmer Rouge...