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Many such conflicts that the U.N. ignored or botched were settled by internal or multilateral action, largely without U.N. assistance. The Khmer Rouge was destroyed by a Vietnamese invasion; the U.N. dared to step in only after 28 years of oppression. Idi Amin’s rule, during which as many as 300,000 people died, ended when the Tanzanian military invaded on humanitarian and political motives. In the former Yugoslavia, the U.S.-sponsored Dayton Accords—unaffiliated with the U.N.—ended the conflict. The world has a lot more reason to thank the United States...
...protecting the wildlife and the forests these days. For years the 2.5 million acres of rain forest and the wildlife that lives in it--including tigers, leopards, barking deer and gibbons--were left alone while Cambodia was at war. The Cardamoms were used as a sanctuary by the feared Khmer Rouge, who laid land mines and booby traps to keep people out. But when the civil war ended in the 1990s, loggers, hunters and farmers started moving in, slashing and burning the forest and eventually prompting environmental groups to scramble for a strategy to protect the region...
This month Bangkok Airways is launching its Mekong World Heritage Tour, linking Sukhothai with the unesco-listed sites of Luang Prabang in Laos, the ancient Vietnamese capital of Hue and the Khmer ruins of Angkor in Cambodia. Travelers can visit all four sites in eight days for about $1,000 including hotels. Or they can purchase individual flights for a customized itinerary. Says Prasarttong-Osoth: "Even those traveling for a short time will be able to get an understanding of this area's incredible history." And get a taste of incredible Bangkok Airways...
...countryside, now being made a hell by vicious, marauding Maoists, is simultaneously a picture of bucolic paradise, rivaled perhaps only by Afghanistan's northern mountains in springtime. Cambodia's civil war raged against a backdrop of some of the world's most stunning architecture?Angkor Wat and its surrounding Khmer temples?while the battlefields where 65,000 people have died in two decades in northern Sri Lanka are lush jungles of palms and ponds alive with kingfishers, green parrots and black and yellow longtails. Kashmir in May?as the snow pulls back through the damp pine forests and ponies wander...
...decades; in Hot Springs, Virginia. With seven major championships and 81 PGA Tour victories, Snead was considered one of the sport's greatest players. He had won every major golf title except for the U.S. Open, of which he was runner-up four times. CHARGED. SAM BITH, 69, former Khmer Rouge general, with the 1994 kidnapping and murder of three backpackers-Australian David Wilson, Briton Mark Slater and Frenchman Jean-Michel Braquet; in Phnom Penh...