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...most traumatized of all the refugees in Thailand are the Khmer Rouge soldiers, and the civilians who were forced to follow them into hideouts in border areas under pressure by the Vietnamese army that occupied Cambodia last January. These refugees, about 30,000 in all, are dramatic evidence of the human damage wrought by the murderous regime of ousted Premier...
...officials and physicians have been astounded by the apathetic behavior of the Khmer Rouge refugees. Though no trained psychiatrists have examined them, they appear to be suffering the effects of drastic brainwashing, combined with extreme physical hardship and unrelieved fear. In an effort to create a radically new kind of human being, Pol Pot's Communist fanatics turned their subjects into zombie-like creatures whose will and capacity for human feeling seem all but extinguished...
...Cambodia center on the irrepressible Prince Sihanouk, who wanders in exile between Peking and the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. Sihanouk had been put under house arrest by the Pol Pot regime when the former Chief of State had boldly returned to Cambodia at the height of the Khmer Rouge terror. He re-emerged just as Phnom-Penh fell to the Vietnamese invaders last January. He appeared at the U.N. to make an impassioned speech in favor of Cambodian independence in which he compared Viet Nam to a "starving boa constrictor leaping on an innocent animal...
...Because of his longtime residence in Peking he would probably not be acceptable to the Soviet Union as a compromise leader of the country, in the unlikely event that Hanoi could be persuaded to withdraw its forces from Cambodia. Last month Sihanouk announced the formation of a Confederation of Khmer Nationalists in exile, which was building its own armed forces. The Prince also said that he would attempt to establish a provisional government in Cambodia that would exclude backers of both the Peking-supported Khmer Rouge and Hanoi-sponsored Heng Samrin. Sihanouk declared that his organization was supported...
...walking through the legs of the giants and doing the job." The California-based World Vision International, a conservative Protestant organization noted for its missionary efforts, has also been well received by Cambodian officials, largely because of contacts made there before the 1975 triumph of the Khmer Rouge. So far WVI has flown in about 15 tons of food...