Word: phnom-penh
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...dedicated themselves to the overthrow of the Phnom-Penh government, and Hanoi's forces were attacking deep inside Cambodia...
...been explicitly rejected by Le Duc Tho on April 4, 1970. And by then Sihanouk was no longer in a position to be neutralist. The real prospect before us, therefore, was exactly what the quoted paragraph describes as the most likely outcome: the reopening of Sihanoukville, a government in Phnom-Penh dominated by Hanoi and reopened sanctuaries now comprising all of eastern Cambodia. Where I differ sharply from the paragraph is in its assertion that we had "freedom of choice." This is precisely what we did not have, for the prospect it describes would have meant an overwhelming, insurmountable...
Hanoi's biggest headache is in Cambodia, where elements of four Khmer Rouge divisions loyal to deposed Premier Pol Pot are still able to terrorize civilians and harass Vietnamese units immobilized by the monsoons. Last month Khmers thought to be loyal to Hanoi's new regime in Phnom-Penh expelled the Vietnamese garrison from the river port of Kratie. Though the town was quickly recaptured, the startled Vietnamese began to transfer Pathet Lao troops from Laos as a means of guaranteeing village security...
...been denounced throughout the civilized world. "Everybody knows the word that characterizes current Vietnamese policies," editorialized West Germany's prestigious Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. "That word is holocaust." Said Singapore's Rajaratnam: "The best anti-Communist propaganda now being put forward anywhere in the world emanates from Phnom-Penh and Hanoi. However critical ASEAN countries might be about the many shortcomings within their own societies, they now have even greater cause to be wary of a 'liberation' that causes thousands of people to risk life and limb to seek sanctuary in allegedly reactionary, oppressive ASEAN countries...
Nearly a decade of bloodshed and upheaval has left the country in ruins, its population decimated, its economy shattered. The countryside is still ravaged by a war between invading Vietnamese troops who support Hanoi's puppet regime of Heng Samrin in Phnom-Penh and diehard Khmer Rouge guerrillas loyal to ousted Premier...