Word: phnompenh
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...demo is actually a carefully prepared propaganda device, and sometimes a safety valve through which shaky potentates can let off the steam of an uneasy citizenry. As Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk said after a mob of students and agitators tore up the U.S. and British embassies in Phnompenh last spring: "The riots were inexcusable but comprehensible. They translated the legitimate exasperation of Cambodian youth before the repeated humiliations inflicted on their country by the Anglo-Saxon powers." Of course the riots were comprehensible. Sihanouk had organized them...
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