Word: khmer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Woodside said he doubted whether the Lon No1 government would survive even with continued American bombing. He explained that Sihanouk appears to be the only person with ties to both the Khmer Rouge Cambodian revolutionary movement and the international community-- connections upon which a stable peace must necessarily be founded...
...White House announced last week that negotiations are underway at present with what it calls the 'insurgent forces,' evidently meaning Sihanouk and the Khmer Rouge. Sihanouk has denied that any talks are taking place...
...Cambodia--now in its 117th consecutive day--may be just as severe, it does not yet have the same immediate impact. Most people know little about the embattled country. Reporting from Cambodia is scanty and shoddy, the outlines of the political dispute there are hazy, and the revolutionary Khmer Rouge, to which many Harvard students would be attracted, is still a shadowy and elusive force...
These claims are all lies. The bombing, as some belated reporting from the area is starting to show, is directed against an indigenous Cambodian revolutionary movement, the Khmer Rouge, a force numbering in the hundreds of thousands which is attempting to topple the Lon Nol regime, Nixon's two-year-old creation. It is not directed against military targets, but has actually killed thousands of Cambodian people and clogged the roads in that country with tens of thousands of refugees. Nixon's bombing is a crime against peace -- a crime for which Nazi and Japanese war criminals were hanged...
...bombing in Cambodia--now in its 99th consecutive day--may be just as severe, it does not have the same immediate impact. Most students know little about Cambodia yet. Reporting from the country is scanty and shoddy, the outlines of the political dispute are hazy, and the revolutionary Khmer Rouge, to whom many Harvard students would be attracted, are still a shadowy and elusive force...