Word: norodom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PRINCE NORODOM SIHANOUK...
...assault on the base, which had been held by forces loyal to Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the former Cambodian head of state, capped a triumphant Vietnamese dry-season offensive that has forced the Khmer resistance to reassess its six-year-old insurgency. In a series of strikes against strongholds of non-Communist and Communist resistance groups, the Vietnamese had pushed the guerrillas out of one border sanctuary after another. As the fighting raged, 230,000 Kampuchean refugees sought shelter across the frontier in Thailand. In ousting the resistance from its redoubts, the Vietnamese also cut supply lines that link Thailand with...
...zone of sanctuary for the coalition of 60,000 Communist and non-Communist guerrillas who are carrying on the fight against Hanoi. The Vietnamese also dealt a sharp blow to the Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge's reputation for toughness. A mere 48 hours before the Vietnamese struck, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the anti-Hanoi coalition's nominal head, had paid a visit to Phnom Malai to announce support from a scattering of Third World nations. During Sihanouk's visit, Khieu Samphan, one of the Khmer Rouge's top leaders, had assured newsmen that "we are safe here." Describing the Vietnamese...
...response to the Khmer Rouge's deteriorating situation, five members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines), which backs the Kampuchean resistance, demanded that the Soviet Union curtail its military aid to Viet Nam, estimated at $6 million a day. Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the nominal head of the resistance coalition government, warned that China, which invaded Viet Nam in 1979, would teach the Vietnamese "a second lesson" if the guerrillas are pushed to the wall...
...Khmer Front component of the Kampuchean resistance. With an estimated 12,000 fighters led by onetime Prime Minister Son Sann, the front is linked in a loose alliance with some 40,000 guerrillas of the Communist Khmer Rouge, backed by China, and 5,000 soldiers loyal to Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Kampuchea's former head of state. The guerrilla forces are no match for the Vietnamese, who maintain approximately 160,000 troops in Kampuchea and can bring in heavy weapons...