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...tourism-led economic revival dashed. Hun Sen has hastily assembled three committees to repair relations with Thailand, evaluate the damage done to the Thai embassy and estimate the financial losses of the Thai population living in Cambodia. He has also started rounding up "extremists," and his chief spokesman, Khieu Kanharith, has apologized for the government's inability to contain the riots. "We didn't think it would become anarchy," says Khieu. When the mob is unleashed, as it was in Phnom Penh last week, expecting anything less is deadly folly...
...hold the other Khmer Rouge leaders accountable for the 1975-79 genocide -- which, if all goes well, will mean the same kind of international tribunal intended for Pol Pot. More importantly, Cambodian government forces are closing in. ?We will persuade whoever can be persuaded to defect,? said Khieu Kanharith, a spokesman for the Phnom Penh regieme that already includes a number of Khmer Rouge turncoats. ?But Ta Mok, Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, as well as Pol Pot, must be brought to trial.? With luck, they?ll be alive...
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