Word: samphan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Khmer Rouge Leader Khieu Samphan gives a rare interview...
...Western journalists, including TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief Marsh Clark, to visit one of their bases inside Cambodia. Anxious to placate world opinion, which was appalled by reports that they had slaughtered millions of their own people, the Khmer Rouge produced their most articulate leader, President and Premier Khieu Samphan, 48. His confident if ominous message: the guerrillas will fight a protracted "people's war" against the Vietnamese and will eventually prevail...