Word: phnom-penh
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...movie star has returned to Southeast Asia to complete a European television documentary and a book. "I want to show the suffering of the Cambodian people," he explained after meeting Chen Ian, 12, whose parents were killed in a Vietnamese attack on their refugee camp. The latest rulers in Phnom-Penh, Viet Nam's puppet Heng Samrin government, are worse even than the Khmer Rouge in Ngor's view. "They kill all my people. They kill our nation. They kill Khmer culture," says the expatriate patriot with great anguish...
...after four years of torture and forced labor, his entire family, as well as his fiancee, had been murdered by the Communists. Or so he thought, until he was promoting the movie in Europe and received a message from Dom Ponn Many, a niece he had last seen in Phnom-Penh ten years ago. Now living in France with her husband and four children, she had read an article about the film and recognized her uncle. At an emotional airport meeting in Cannes, Ngor saw her children for the first time and invited the whole family to accompany...
...technically they are not children of war?not of war as it is fought in Belfast, Nahariya, Ramallah, Beirut, or in the jungles outside Phnom-Penh. There are no gun battles or street riots in Viet Nam any more. One side has won, one has lost; and the children of the losers have the choice of "re-education," hunger or the sea. The children of Viet Nam have known war, and they have also known the consequences of war. They thus offer an opportunity to pose the one question that has been hovering over all these children, which...
...fatigues for pinstripe suits, he evolved into a democrat and statesman. He abolished press censorship, hiked the minimum wage, offered amnesty to Communist insurgents and organized free elections under a new constitution. He also pulled off a tricky diplomatic balancing act, improving relations with Communist neighbors in Hanoi and Phnom-Penh while strengthening Thailand's ties with Washington...
...million a day since 1979, after the Vietnamese ousted the Peking-supported Pol Pot government from Cambodia. In turn, the Chinese have armed the Khmer Rouge guerrillas, who have been harrying Hanoi's occupying army. Ultimately, Peking seeks to restore the Pol Pot regime to power in Phnom-Penh in spite of the fact that his Communist regime slaughtered an estimated 3 million Cambodians during a reign of terror that lasted nearly four years. One theory to explain why China did not back the ASEAN proposal was that it wants to keep on bleeding Viet Nam and the Soviet...