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Under the auspices of a U.N.-brokered settlement, the Prince has returned to lead a transitional Supreme National Council composed of Cambodia's four warring factions. It includes, by necessity, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, whose Maoist-inspired ideology had devastated the country from 1975 to 1979 and resulted in more than 1 million deaths. Sihanouk on his return called for an international trial of Khmer Rouge leaders on charges of genocide -- which poses a stern test for even his powers of adaptability, since those same leaders will sit on the council he is to head...
...middle-aged man had fled Cambodia to save his family from the genocidal Khmer Rouge. Now, as he stalked furiously back and forth across the grimy patio behind a cramped bungalow in the Little Phnom Penh section of Long Beach, he saw a very different threat materializing -- within his own family. His 14-year-old son, gang-named Flipper, and another homeboy, Slicc, 18, were bragging to a stranger about a shoot...
That vision of a democratic Cambodia, alas, is fraught with peril. Chief fear is that the Khmer Rouge, the rebel faction that ruled the country with a brutal hand in the mid-1970s, may try once again to seize power...
...head of the Khmer Rouge's genocidal regime during the 1970s, has not been seen in public for about 10 years. Last week, however, the Asian Wall Street Journal reported that he was lurking in the background when Cambodian peace talks were held in Thailand in June. While negotiations with the Vietnam-backed government of Hun Sen were under way, the ex-dictator reportedly instructed the guerrillas from a secret location nearby. He is said to have acceded to government demands to designate Phnom Penh as the seat of the four-party Supreme National Council, consisting of the Khmer Rouge...
...warring parties to reach a settlement. In Hanoi, the Seventh Congress of the Vietnamese Communist Party dismissed Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach, a man China viewed as its principal antagonist in the region. It is widely believed that his departure will make Beijing, the chief supporter of the Khmer Rouge -- which ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1978 -- more willing to nudge the guerrillas to accept a compromise...