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RETURNED. SAM RAINSY, 56, outspoken Cambodian opposition leader; to his home country; ending a year of self-imposed exile in France to avoid imprisonment on charges of defaming the government; in Phnom Penh. Rainsy, who fled Cambodia last February after being stripped of his parliamentary immunity, was sentenced in absentia to 18 months in prison for linking Prime Minister Hun Sen to a fatal grenade attack at an opposition rally in 1997. Last week Rainsy received a pardon from King Norodom Sihamoni after issuing a statement expressing regret and pledging to temper his criticism of the country's leaders...
...conspiracy to kill in a foreign country and engaging in a military expedition against a friendly nation, for allegedly orchestrating a failed 2000 coup against Cambodian leader Hun Sen; in Long Beach, California. In the attack, code named Operation Volcano, some 70 rebels unsuccessfully stormed government buildings in Phnom Penh, leaving dozens injured and eight people killed. Chhun, who has called Hun Sen's regime a puppet of Communist Vietnam, claimed at the time that the attack was a coup attempt and vowed to strike again. He and his wife also face fraud charges relating to their tax-preparation business...
...years after graduating from Harvard, Schanberg won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his coverage of Khmer Rouge’s rise to power in Cambodia. Schanberg elected to stay at his post even after the violent fall of Phnom Penh...
...days after Vietnamese troops drove Pol Pot from power in 1979, a Cambodian farmer named Neang Say returned to his home village of Choeung Ek on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. He came upon a tree with blood, brain matter and hair embedded in the bark. Nearby he found an open pit filled with corpses?one of the 129 mass graves dug by the Khmer Rouge for the estimated 17,000 people they executed at the secluded spot. Neang Say was one of the first people to bring Choeung Ek's horrors to the attention of the invading Vietnamese...
...transformed into a revenue-generating tourist attraction. According to a contract signed on March 18, the new operator, JC Royal Co., is expected to "increase revenue for the state and develop and renovate the beauty of Choeung Ek killing fields." JC Royal is to pay the municipality of Phnom Penh $15,000 a year. In return, it will be allowed to jack up entrance fees, charging foreign visitors up to $3 instead of the current 50 cents...