Word: ranariddh
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...Cambodia after six months of medical treatment in China. But while the monarch has in the past been a force for reconciliation in the country, he's not likely to be able to do much this time around, with Hun Sen ? the man who deposed his son, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, in a bloody coup ? still firmly in charge...
...faith so far this year, Cambodian leader Hun Sen is asking members of parliament who fled his bloody coup to return and endorse his choice for a new co-prime minister. The offer comes just weeks after Hun Sen took power from former co-prime minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh in a bloody action in which 40 of Ranariddh's supporters were killed in custody, according to the U.N. Human Rights Center. For Hun Sen, the push is a move to legitimize his government in the face of his violent overthrow that made a shambles of the UN's landmark...
Perhaps the hope was always an illusion. After the Siamese-twin government replaced the Vietnamese-installed regime, the chaotic and corrupt new administration accomplished almost nothing except to set up Ranariddh and Hun Sen as competing warlords. The situation became increasingly unstable when Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, the other pocket of Cambodian power for 19 years, started to fall apart last year in its hidden jungle exile. First Prime Minister Ranariddh, son of venerable King Sihanouk, started negotiations with the disintegrating guerrilla group, offering jobs in his army, which was far smaller than Second Prime Minister...
...Khmer Rouge forces started trickling into Phnom Penh, Hun Sen, who had defected from the Maoist group in the late 1970s, became worried, and skirmishes broke out between the rival armies. "I did not want to leave," Prince Ranariddh later told a French reporter, "but my generals came to me and said, 'Hun Sen is going to attack, sire.'" The prince fled to Paris two weeks ago, and Hun Sen's troops fanned out through Phnom Penh. By early last week, they had control of the city. Two of Ranariddh's top aides were arrested and executed; others have gone...
There was little chance of that, and Ranariddh said he wouldn't return to Phnom Penh soon. "Hun Sen would lynch me," he predicted. The U.S. suspended $35 million in aid, saying Hun Sen's action was "unacceptable." But American officials admit they have given up on Ranariddh as well. Hun Sen says the dual system of government can go on with another member of Ranariddh's party as co-Prime Minister--though the execution of the prince's associates belies that promise. Late last week a replacement for Ranariddh stepped forward: Toan Chay, governor of Siem Reap province...