Word: hun
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...Vietnamese occupation of Phnom Penh in 1979 forced the Khmer Rouge from power and replaced them with a pro-Hanoi and pro-Soviet government currently headed by Prime Minister Hun Sen, 39, a poorly educated but extraordinarily bright former Khmer Rouge officer who lost an eye during the 1970-75 Cambodian war. Since that government took office, the toll in the country has been markedly lower: a few dozen or so limbs and lives lost each week as the deposed Khmer Rouge and other Cambodian factions -- each representing combinations of outside support -- fight to regain power. Vietnam ostensibly withdrew...
Moreover, it is not true that Vietnam has completely left Cambodia. A well- informed intelligence source in Indochina acknowledges that several hundred Vietnamese military advisers are still attached to Hun Sen's army, as are two understrength Vietnamese regiments of about 1,000 troops each. Two Vietnamese- speaking soldiers in Cambodian uniforms were aboard a recent flight from Phnom Penh to the provincial capital of Siem Reap, and interviews with residents there confirmed that many Vietnamese-speaking troops are assigned to government units in the area...
...Hun Sen, Cambodia...
...with God there--but what do you expect from a philosophy concentrator whose conception of the real world is derived from epistemological restructuralized empiricism? (This means he can't remember where he left his bookbag.) As an etiquette-impaired individual whose social graces have been compared to Attila the Hun's, I consider myself very lucky to be his friend...
...Ranh Bay. The move appeared to be aimed at cutting costs, pressuring the U.S. to reduce its military presence in the Pacific and, significant for Cambodia, improving relations with Beijing. The Cambodian conflict has in some ways been a proxy war between the Soviets, who back Hun Sen, and the Chinese, who support the resistance...