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PARIS--Bitter accusations against the Khmer Rouge dominated Cambodian peace talks yesterday, with Vietnam calling the communist group "the most barbarous regime ever known" and demanding it be destroyed like the Nazis...
Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach demanded the "perpetual eradication" of the Khmer Rouge...
...Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan charged in turn that Hanoi plans to "exterminate" the Cambodian people and nation and has no intention of withdrawing it troops from Cambodia next month as promised...
Emerging as a seemingly irreconcilable difference was the future role of the Khmer Rouge, the strongest of three resistance groups fighting the Vietnamese and the pro-Hanoi government in Cambodia. The resistance is armed by China and led by Prince Norodom Sihanouk, a noncommunist who believes having the Khmer Rouge in Phnom Penh during an interim period leading to elections would be better than fighting them in the jungles...
Almost all delegates at the conference reviled the Khmer Rouge, which was routed in a Vietnamese invasion in early 1979 after its fighters killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in a revolution to reform the country into an agrarian commune...