Word: norodom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stung by criticism that he has become an "accomplice" of the murderous Khmer Rouge guerrillas, Cambodian resistance leader Prince Norodom Sihanouk last week resorted to a familiar tactic. He announced yet another change in his zigzag course to a political settlement...
...conference convened in Paris to hammer out a settlement between the Cambodian government and the tripartite resistance collapsed in August over the fate of the Khmer Rouge. Hun Sen refused to consider any power-sharing arrangement with the guerrillas who had turned Cambodia into a charnel house, and Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the country's former ruler and the titular head of the resistance, refused to come into a government without them. The combatants and their assorted international sponsors had hoped to reach agreement before the Vietnamese pullout. Now, with the occupiers gone and no political settlement in sight, the country...
Peace talks between Cambodian factions--including Prince Norodom Sihanouk, a former leader of the country who is allied with the Khmer Rouge--and foreign powers broke down in August. Those talks were aimed at preventing bloodshed following Hanoi's removal of troops from the region...
...Khmer Rouge's principal backer is China. Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who also relies on Chinese patronage, is the overall leader of the resistance and likely to head any coalition. Although the Khmer Rouge slaughtered 40 of his relatives, Sihanouk, like the U.S., has given priority to getting the Vietnamese out of Phnom Penh, even if it means letting some Khmer Rouge back in. Also like the U.S., he is hoping it will be easier to neutralize the Khmer Rouge if some of them are running ministries rather than assassinating ministers...
...conference opened, a parley among the four warring Cambodian factions broke down just hours after it began. The talks were resumed by the factions -- the country's Vietnamese-backed government, represented by Prime Minister Hun Sen, and a resistance coalition that includes two non-Communist groups under Prince Norodom Sihanouk andnationalist leader Son Sann, as well as the Khmer Rouge -- only after they finally agreed to sit together at this ^ week's conference under the single name Cambodia...