Cambodia Yes, Khmer Rouge No

From: The Washington Post | Date: July 26, 1993 | Copyright information

WHAT TO DO with the Communist Khmer Rouge, authors of Cambodia's genocide of the 1970s, who hang on diminished but still capable of new crimes against life and order? They boycotted and sought to disrupt the U.N.-supervised elections of May and reneged on their commitment to disarm. But now they hint at readiness to call off their insurgency if Prince Sihanouk, restored as head of state, will somehow bring them in out of the cold. The prince, who has shown he deeply distrusts the Khmer Rouge, has nonetheless been inspecting terms. He would not give them an unearned share of official power, it ...

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