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- WORLD, Page 53World NotesCAMBODIA"No Right To Live"
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- Khieu Samphan had a message for fellow Cambodians as he left
- Bangkok for Phnom Penh: "I want to tell people to let bygones be
- bygones."
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- Not on his life. Shortly after his homecoming last week,
- the Khmer Rouge front man found himself besieged by a vengeful
- mob, chased into a bedroom, clubbed and very nearly lynched.
- The bloodied exile was hustled out of Cambodia's unforgiving
- capital, having come within an ace of joining the Khmer Rouge's
- own countless victims -- at least a million by most estimates.
- A distraught woman seemed to voice the general sentiment of the
- 10,000-strong crowd. Said Chuon Spophey, 52: "He has no right
- to live. He killed my husband and son."
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- Fearing that the Khmer Rouge might revert to the guerrilla
- warfare they have waged since their reign of terror ended in
- 1979, Prince Norodom Sihanouk called for Cambodia's Supreme
- National Council, which includes the Khmer Rouge, to meet in
- Bangkok. For the moment, the Khmer Rouge promised to observe the
- U.N.-mediated peace plan.
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