Word: khmer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Washington's tacit backing of the Khmer Rouge may have contributed as much to the diplomatic impasse as did Hanoi's support of its stubborn Cambodian clients. That sad symmetry is beginning to look like the latest blight on America's dismal record in Southeast Asia -- and the Bush Administration's first major foreign policy debacle...
...country's shattered economy as well as to endear him to skeptical citizens: the institution of land-tenure rights for farmers, the beginnings of a free-market economy and recognition of Buddhism as the state religion. While Hun Sen's cloudy history as a former member of the Khmer Rouge and his association with the Vietnamese continue to haunt him, he is gaining stature as a nationalist. He is regarded by many Cambodians as the only viable alternative to the Khmer Rouge...
...toward a more sane solution. The capricious Sihanouk, who ruled in the 1950s and '60s, stands as a symbol of better times. But his erratic behavior in recent months has baffled Cambodians and international observers alike as he has bounced between conciliation with Hun Sen and collaboration with the Khmer Rouge. Son Sann maintains links with a second guerrilla force whose disciplined units are outnumbered by troops preoccupied with smuggling and black-market trading. And the Khmer Rouge continue to inspire revulsion among a populace that remains deeply scarred by Pol Pot's reign of terror between...
Cambodia and Viet Nam are desperate for change. Yet there was no real jubilation for two countries that have battled one enemy or another, Cambodia for the past 20 years, Viet Nam for more than twice as long. In Cambodia three guerrilla armies, not least the brutal Khmer Rouge, are spoiling to settle their differences with the Hanoi-approved government of Hun Sen. The departure of the Vietnamese promises only the renewal of civil strife as these groups struggle for dominance...
...exhausted nations, Cambodia faces the more dire future. A 19- nation conference convened in Paris to hammer out a settlement between the Cambodian government and the tripartite resistance collapsed in August over the fate of the Khmer Rouge. Hun Sen refused to consider any power-sharing arrangement with the guerrillas who had turned Cambodia into a charnel house, and Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the country's former ruler and the titular head of the resistance, refused to come into a government without them. The combatants and their assorted international sponsors had hoped to reach agreement before the Vietnamese pullout. Now, with...