Word: samrin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since the December invasion. East Germany's assistance to Viet Nam dates back to the 1960s, and has multiplied ever since. Annual aid to Hanoi now totals tens of millions. East German assistance has also extended to Hanoi's client regime in Cambodia. Last month President Heng Samrin flew to East Berlin from Phnom-Penh to sign a 25-year friendship treaty...
...excess of most Western estimates. He called for unity among Cambodians of all political beliefs in order to drive out the invaders. In striking contrast to the fanatical rigidity of past Khmer Rouge pronouncements, Samphan even proposed a coalition government that might include Prince Norodom Sihanouk and Heng Samrin, who heads the Hanoi-backed government in Phnom-Penh. Then, Samphan said, an election supervised by the U.N. could help to determine the new leadership of Cambodia...
...consolidated its power by mass killings, but the weak-hearted West preferred not to take any notice in 1943-45. He who understands the nature of Communism will not ask whether the world's aid is reaching the starving Cambodians through the good offices of the Heng Samrin regime. Of course it does not. It is confiscated for the army and government. The people can starve...
...During your campaign, you were quoted as saying that you would recognize the [Hanoi-backed Heng Samrin] government in Cambodia...
...Communists have their own explosive quarrels. Hanoi's Soviet-backed rulers expelled hundreds of thousands of its ethnic Chinese citizens, many of whom drowned at sea; survivors landed on the shores of nations that could not handle such onslaughts of refugees. In Cambodia, the Vietnamese-backed regime of Heng Samrin was proving little better than the maniacal Chinese-supported dictatorship of Pol Pot that it had deposed. Hundreds of thousands of Cambodians still faced death by starvation or disease as the year ended, despite huge relief efforts organized by the outside world...