Word: khmer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...narrow, potholed road was one of the main routes used by Vietnamese forces when they invaded Cambodia in late 1978 and ended nearly four years of Khmer Rouge terror, installing a pro-Hanoi government...
There is widespread fear that the Khmer Rouge, which from 1975 to 1978 sent at least a million Cambodians to their death as it tried to turn the country into a primitive agrarian commune, could fight its way back to power...
...past decade, tens of thousands of Vietnamese troops have been in Cambodia helping the Phnom Penh government battle a coalition of guerrilla groups whose strongest faction is the Khmer Rouge...
...should be the other way around. The Bush Administration should be trying harder to get China -- itself in need of some respectability these days -- to abandon its most disgraceful clients. The U.S. should also withhold aid to Sihanouk until he breaks with the Khmer Rouge entirely. Perhaps, deprived of all international tolerance, they will suffer defeats, lose their ability to recruit troops and fade into history...
Baker implied that Hun Sen and his Vietnamese mentors are no better than the Khmer Rouge. The Secretary of State warned that the Cambodian people may "be forced to choose between being eaten by a tiger or devoured by a crocodile." But this parallel does not stand up. Hun Sen has been rebuilding the country that the Khmer Rouge destroyed. If it ever comes to a hard choice between him and the Khmer Rouge, as indeed it might, the Cambodian people would without doubt choose Hun Sen. So should...