Cambodia (Kampuchea): History, tragedy, and uncertain future
1989; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 21; Issue: 2-4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/14672715.1989.10404455
ISSN0007-4810
Autores Tópico(s)Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
ResumoCambodia first came to the attention of the founders of BCAS in 1973 as a result of U.S. aggression to perpetuate a dubious regime led by General Lon Nol against what seemed to be popular revolutionary forces patronized by Prince Norodom Sihanouk, whom Lon Nol had overthrown in 1970. Since 1979 the United States has been part of a multi-nation effort to bring back those same “popular forces” against a state that has proven itself much more long-lived, effective, and popular than either the forces backed by the United States now or Lon Nol's Khmer Republic that the United States was supporting in the early 1970s. If Cambodia was a “sideshow” then, it has now become a UN comedy featuring the government of Cambodia in a collection of jungle camps on the Thai border rather than in Phnom Penh, and we must hope that this comedy does not run as long as the U.S .-scripted farce casting Taiwan as China while relegating “Peiping” to nonexistence.
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