Word: pailin
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...investment, the Khmer Rouge found itself on the sidelines politically and economically, unable to buy the motorcycles and television sets that were proliferating across the country. A small trickle of defectors in the early '90s became a flood by 1996, when cadres in the gem-mining town of Pailin, the other principal Khmer Rouge base, joined the government side...
...really sad. When we pulled in my dad was all excited to stop at the corner and get a beer, but it was closed," said Mather resident E. Pailin Gaither...
...battalions are supplemented by local and provincial militias, perhaps 150,000 in all, which Hun Sen hopes will do better at defending their homes. As yet, both the army and the rural militias are largely untested. But last week the regulars were still resisting a Khmer Rouge offensive on Pailin, a ruby-rich district near the Thai border that is critical to the rebels' infiltration route...
...Pailin is the center of a remote ruby mining district near Thailand, where the guerrilla groups are based...
Phnom Penh's defense minister, Gen. Tea Banh, has acknowledged the guerrillas have seized teritory near Pailin, but said the area remained under government control...