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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...
Peace talks between Cambodian factions--including Prince Norodom Sihanouk, a former leader of the country who is allied with the Khmer Rouge--and foreign powers broke down in August. Those talks were aimed at preventing bloodshed following Hanoi's removal of troops from the region...
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...