Word: heng
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Asia to complete a European television documentary and a book. "I want to show the suffering of the Cambodian people," he explained after meeting Chen Ian, 12, whose parents were killed in a Vietnamese attack on their refugee camp. The latest rulers in Phnom-Penh, Viet Nam's puppet Heng Samrin government, are worse even than the Khmer Rouge in Ngor's view. "They kill all my people. They kill our nation. They kill Khmer culture," says the expatriate patriot with great anguish...
Boston Premiere Ensemble: Delights of Three with three solo pianists--Heng-Jin Park, Charles Fisk, and Lois Shapiro. Sanders Theatre...
...ended the latest phase of the annual dry-season effort by Hanoi to stamp out forces opposed to the Kampuchean regime of Heng Samrin, who is widely considered to be a Vietnamese puppet. From Hanoi's point of view, the operation was a success: between 89 and 103 guerrillas were killed or wounded in the action, while Vietnamese casualties were presumed to be much lighter. Moreover, the attack dealt a blow to the Khmer Front, the major non-Communist element in the close to 60,000-member guerrilla coalition that is continuing to resist the 1978 Vietnamese invasion of Kampuchea...
Diplomatically, however, the guerrilla alliance has been holding a strong hand: the Heng Samrin regime has never been recognized as legitimate by the United Nations. The Khmer Front and the Sihanouk forces have the backing of the U.S. and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei and the Philippines). A sustained Vietnamese attack on the front thus weakens a non-Communist alternative to the Heng Samrin government. By themselves, the stronger and more aggressive Khmer Rouge are far less likely to draw international sympathy to the resistance cause, since they are still remembered by the rest...
...Communist Khmer People's National Liberation Front. This group, led by onetime Prime Minister Son Sann, is supported by the U.S. and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. It has formed a loose coalition with the Khmer Rouge and the Sihanouk forces, aimed at overthrowing the Heng Samrin regime and driving out the Vietnamese. Though the resistance organizations, fielding an estimated 50,000 lightly equipped fighters, have no chance of doing that for the present, they constitute a challenge that the Vietnamese are continuing to take very seriously...