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...dictatorship, and, in the Cold War, for serving as a bastion against communism. For instance, King Juan Carlos of Spain has been greatly admired since 1981, when he intervended to prevent a military coup from taking over the Spanish parliament. For Cambodia, the exiled but widely respected King Norodom Sihanouk has been a ray of hope representing democracy, as this summer militant leader Hun Sen crashed the fragile Cambodian peace that had been set up by the United Nations...
...Return of the King: King Norodom Sihanouk returns to the 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...
...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 Hun Sen's. Those negotiations probably led to a revolt within the Khmer Rouge ranks. In June, Khmer Rouge radio announced that Pol Pot had been arrested, though the elusive despot...
...replacement for Ranariddh stepped forward: Toan Chay, governor of Siem Reap province. A former ally of the prince's who split with him and formed a rival faction in May, Toan Chay told TIME, "I already consider myself the leader of Cambodia." The best outcome would be for King Sihanouk to mediate, as he has done in many past crises, but he is currently in Beijing and ill with cancer...
...ministers representing the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, an economic bloc comprising several regional countries, military operations will cease and a caretaker government will be formed comprising the prince's party and Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party until elections next year. The deal also gives King Norodom Sihanouk, Ranariddh's father, authority over the armed forces and calls for both sides to accept the terms of the Paris peace accords which ended decades of fighting and set the stage for elections in 1993. While Ranariddh has accepted the deal, it is very likely Hun Sen will not, considering...