Word: samrin
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Dates: during 1979-1979
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...monumental tragedy that has decimated that Southeast Asian people since the terrorist regime of Pol Pot took power in 1975. Reports from the few Western journalists and relief workers who have entered Cambodia in recent months indicate that the suffering continues under the present Vietnam-dominated Heng Samrin government, which overthrew Pol Pot earlier this year...
Cambodia's willingness to let ideological and political considerations supercede fundamental humanitarian concerns is abhorrent. Because of the Heng Samrin regime's intransigence, millions more Cambodians may starve to death...
Although Cambodia's refusal to accept even indirect American aid is disheartening, it should not deter the United States and other countries from further attempts to send relief. The Heng Samrin government has already admitted United Nations and Oxfam relief workers and supplies. World pressure and American appeals for Soviet intervention may lead to Cambodia's opening its borders to additional...
...devastation in Cambodia makes it imperative that the United States not give up its well-intentioned relief efforts in the face of the Heng Samrin regime's rhetoric. Carter and Congress must do everything possible to get the relief through and to alert a sadly indifferent world to the carnage that has taken place and to the plight of the millions who are still living--but just barely--in a ruined Cambodia...
Famine has plagued Cambodia since Vietnamese forces invaded last December and overthrew the Khmer Rouge regime. The refusal of the current Heng Samrin regime to send food to supporters of ex-Premier Pol Pot has complicated international relief efforts...