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...Pathet Lao way, not our way. But it is useless to resist." In fact, despite the regime's direct impact on their lives, the 3 million Laotians remain among the world's most apolitical people. The Pathet Lao is neither as ruthless as Cambodia's Khmer Rouge nor as disciplined as the Vietnamese. In gradually seizing control of the country since mid-April, the Communists have managed to stay popular with their subjects by emphasizing such mass themes as anticorruption and self-rule. They have made skillful propaganda use of traditional Laotian music, to the point that...
...clear advantage here. For one thing, it offered shelter and a home in exile to Prince Norodom Sihanouk after he had been ousted by Premier Lon Nol's 1970 coup. For another, Moscow continued to recognize the Lon Nol regime until a few days before the Khmer Rouge conquest of Cambodia...
National Symbol. As for his own future, "The Khmer Rouge invited me to establish myself, my wife and my children in the royal palace, our Buckingham Palace. Like Queen Elizabeth, I am the symbol of the nation. I am a head of state with a new style. The responsibility for government is in the TED THAI hands of the Khmer Rouge who deserve it because they fought and won and I do not want to compete with them...
...Demigod. The palace, which was officially reopened for the first time since Lon Nol's 1970 military takeover from Sihanouk, may not be occupied for long. Though the Prince is formally Chief of State of the Royal Government of the National Union of Cambodia, his function within the Khmer Rouge government will probably be very limited. Revered in the countryside not merely as a monarch but as a Buddhist demigod, Sihanouk could become a serious political threat to the newly entrenched Communist leadership. His return was brokered by the Chinese, who are vying with North Viet Nam (and indirectly...
...years ago in Peking, Sihanouk said: "I do not like the Khmer Rouge, and they probably do not like me. But they are pure patriots, not puppets of the Soviet Union, China or North Viet Nam, and they are honest and able." The Khmer Rouge appear to feel roughly the same way about Sihanouk...