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...people of South Viet Nam really want Communism? The 1 million people who have risked their lives to escape the regime have stated their opinion. Did the American bombing of Cambodia, as some contend, really cause Pol Pot's unthinkable holocaust? A Khmer Rouge leader and theoretician named Khieu Samphan actually formulated the ideological foundation for the genocide long before the Americans started bombing. Pol Pot, once in power, set in motion the "Year Zero" program that led to the extermination of one-fourth of the population, some 2 million people, his own countrymen. Such deeds originate...
...Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge's reputation for toughness. A mere 48 hours before the Vietnamese struck, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the anti-Hanoi coalition's nominal head, had paid a visit to Phnom Malai to announce support from a scattering of Third World nations. During Sihanouk's visit, Khieu Samphan, one of the Khmer Rouge's top leaders, had assured newsmen that "we are safe here." Describing the Vietnamese as hard-pressed by guerrilla operations deep inside Kampuchea, he said, "They are in difficulty. We are more and more strong...
...pages in the Sunday New York Times Magazine last Dec. 20. Entitled "In the Land of the Khmer Rouge," the story by Freelancer Christopher Jones vividly described a month-long journey in the summer of 1981 with Cambodian guerrillas. Along the way, the author chatted with Cambodian Premier Khieu Samphan and Foreign Minister leng Sary, and caught a glimpse of the elusive Pol Pot. He even witnessed jungle battles with the Vietnamese forces that have occupied the country for the past three years. But Jones' tale may have been too good to be true. At least part...
...toughest obstacle may be whether Sihanouk and the Khmer Rouge can come to any agreement on the creation of a united insurgence force. Sihanouk and Khmer Rouge Leader Khieu Samphan will meet this week in Pyongyang, North Korea, to begin negotiations. But Sihanouk told TIME last week that he doubts there can be much immediate progress in what for him remains a very distasteful undertaking. Said he: "Personally, I do not like to cooperate with the Khmer Rouge. They have killed many of my compatriots, my children, my grandchildren, and my in-laws. It is terrible to have to cooperate...
...that the leaders of the Khmer Rouge, who Sihanouk says indocrinated innocent youngsters into committing one of the most heinous crimes of the century, were insanely fanatical is perhaps an understatement. Khieu Samphan (who claims to have repented for his past sins and to have come to tolerate capitalism) has explained how it was necessary to incite fanatical hatred against the North Vietnamese in order "to unite our compatriots through the party, to bring our workers up to their highest level of productivity, and to make the yotheas (young soldiers) ardor and valor in combat even greater...