US leaders were responsible for the rise of the Khmer Rouge and the killing of millions of innocents, the former Cambodian monarch wrote
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- Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:13:06 -0700
Former King Blasts US Role in Rise of Khmer Rouge
Heng Reaksmey, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
04 September 2007
Rather than bring the former monarch before Khmer Rouge tribunal
courts, better to call forth the US leaders whose interference in
Cambodian affairs led to the rise of the regime, former king Norodom
Sihanouk said Monday.
In a letter written in French and circulated to journalists Monday,
Sihanouk raised the role of the US in toppling his monarchy and
inflaming a communist insurgency through bombing and fighting in the
1970s.
US leaders were responsible for the rise of the Khmer Rouge and the
killing of millions of innocents, the former monarch wrote.
Sihanouk's role in the rise of the Khmer Rouge has come under the
spotlight in recent weeks, with at least one small non-profit group
calling for the revocation of parliament-granted immunity to a
tribunal.
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