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...would allow him to run for a third term. Kigali The Rwandan government launched a prisoner-release program that will seek to rehabilitate participants in the 1994 genocide before they return home. Moscow Russia deported American computer programmer Megan McRee, 35, accusing her of establishing contacts with Islamic terrorists. Phnom Penh Anti-Thai riots rocked Cambodia's capital after false reports that a Thai actress claimed the Angkor Wat temples actually belong to Thailand. Hyderabad An Indian research institute asked Iran to lend it a pair of Asian cheetahs, above, so it could clone the animals, now extinct in India...
...Khmer avenger wore flip-flops and a Britney Spears T shirt. He strode through the shattered glass doors of Thailand's embassy in Phnom Penh and made his way to a well-appointed interior office. There he joined a group of boys who had thrown a painting of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej to the floor. The boys didn't hesitate. The picture was torn and stomped on. "Thailand is no good," they shouted...
...vandalized, and more than 700 Thai nationals, including Ambassador Chatchawed Chartsuwan and his staff, were forced to flee for their lives. But for stunned Thais watching the riots on TV back home, these acts paled beside news of their revered monarch's image defiled inside their own embassy in Phnom Penh while police stood watching from the lawn. "If Cambodians destroy our property, I can deal with that," says Rangsri, 48, a chauffeur in Bangkok. "But stepping on a picture of our King, our father, cannot be accepted. For that, Cambodia must burn...
...that never came close to happening?even though Thailand moved an aircraft carrier into position off the Cambodian coast and its special-forces troops amassed at the border. But the violence in Phnom Penh plunged bilateral relations to their lowest level in decades, damaged the images of both countries?especially Cambodia's?and reignited the simmering resentment that Thais and Cambodians have felt for each other for centuries...
...umbrage from the very name of the Cambodian city adjacent to Angkor?Siem Riep, which literally means "flattened Thai soldiers." Recently a Thai beer company featured an advertisement with backdrops of well-known scenes of Thailand?that included Angkor Wat. The commercial had to be changed after protests from Phnom Penh...