Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...official: Pol Pot did not suffer the fate of his 1.7 million victims. That is, there are no outward signs that he was murdered by his compadres in the Khmer Rouge. A Thai military team examined the body of the late despot Friday in a remote north Cambodian village, and declared him free of gunshot wounds, bruises or other evidence of foul play. Next step: Sending the doctors in, to determine if he really died of a heart attack as the guerilla leaders...
...Some in the Cambodian military think current Khmer Rouge leader Ta Mok had his old rival murdered to take the heat off his embattled guerrilla group. And at least one of Pol Pot's captors has seen the death as a way to wash his hands: "We are clean now," said his jailer, Nuon Nou. So is the U.S., Thailand and Singapore -- a tribunal might have brought to light just how much they helped him evade capture...
...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...
...other day at Stanford, a tall Hispanic boy and a small, autistic Cambodian boy walked Apache Rose through the halls together. The students had nothing in common but a leash to this dog, yet a visitor could sense their mutual pride--the older child in befriending a member of the Stanford family he might never have known about, the younger child in facing his fear and discovering the joys of companionship. Apache Rose, not unlike middle school, is a bridge...
...KONG: Pol Pot sleeps easily, not haunted by the legions of skulls littering his country?s killing fields. That's according to what purports to be his first interview in more than 20 years. Despite leading a bloody purge that is believed to have killed more than 1 million Cambodians, Pol Pot says "My conscience is clear." In the exclusive interview, to be published in full later this week by the Far Eastern Economic Review, Pol Pot defends his orders to execute political opponents, although he disputes the claim that millions had died. ?I came to carry out the struggle...