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BANGKOK: Cambodia's Prince Norodom Ranariddh agreed today to end his armed resistance to Hun Sen, the nation's new strongman who ousted Ranariddh in a bloody coup July 5. Under the deal, reached by members of Ranariddh's royalist party and foreign ministers representing the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, an economic bloc comprising several regional countries, military operations will cease and a caretaker government will be formed comprising the prince's party and Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party until elections next year. The deal also gives King Norodom Sihanouk, Ranariddh's father, authority over the armed...
...people solve the situation without interference from outside," said Hun Sen in a national television address. But the coup is already having a ripple effect. Association of Southeast Asian Nations members are reconsidering admitting Cambodia to the security organization at its July 23 annual meeting. Ousted First Prime Minister Norodom Ranariddh, who fled to France just ahead of the coup, is expected to arrive in the U.S. Wednesday to appeal for support from Washington and the U.N. Security Council...
...captured him, Royalist government officials now are reluctant to say what they know. Meanwhile, Second Prime Minister Hun Sen, the leader of the formerly communist Cambodian People's Party, coolly dismissed the news as another flimsy attempt by the rival royalist faction headed by First Prime Minister Prince Prince Norodom Ranariddh to get an upper hand in the struggle for Khmer Rouge loyalties. "The government should have divided the Khmer Rouge. Instead, the Khmer Rouge has divided the government." And everybody, it seems, is taking turns claiming to have captured the big cheese...
PNOMH PENH, Cambodia: One day after Pol Pot was reported captured by a Khmer Rouge faction, a shamefaced First Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh conceded that the notorious Khmer Rouge leader remains at large. That places the temporary advantage in Cambodia's explosive political tug-of-war in the hands of the formerly communist Cambodian People's Party, led by Second Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has long insisted that Pol Pot is dead. As TIME's Dean Fischer reports: "These two rival factions are trying to maneuver against each other, and one may be manipulating the facts...
...Rouge. Last week, Pol Pot reportedly fled his northern stronghold of Anlong Veng with a small band of loyalists after ordering the killing of his former defense minister Son Sen. The breakup of the Khmer Rouge has increased tensions in Cambodia's government split between First Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh and Second Prime Minister Hun Sen, with each side battling for the hearts and minds of the estimated 10,000 Khmer Rouge guerrillas whose support could tip the political balance of power. Tensions rose in August, when former Khmer Rouge number two Ieng Sary came down from the hills...