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- Subject: CAM: Khmer Rouge release 3 UN peacekeepers
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- 01/19
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- KHMER ROUGE GUERRILLAS RELEASE THREE U.N. PEACEKEEPERS
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- PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA (JAN. 19) UPI - Khmer Rouge guerrillas Tuesday freed three
- U.N. naval personnel and a Cambodian interpreter they had been holding two days
- in central Cambodia, a U.N. spokesman said.
- The two Britons, one Chilean and the Cambodian were released at about 2 p.m.
- local time Tuesday "and are safe and well," said Eric Falt, spokesman for the
- U.N. Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC).
- The three UNTAC naval personnel went up the Sen River by boat on Sunday with
- the interpreter to attend a pre-arranged meeting with a group of Khmer Rouge
- guerrillas at a site about 90 miles north of Phnom Penh.
- However, the Khmer Rouge detained the men, who were all unarmed, at a camp
- on the banks of the Sen River about 20 miles west of the provincial capital of
- Kompong Thom.
- The four men were freed Tuesday after more than 48 hours of negotiations
- between UNTAC officials and Khmer Rouge representatives in Phnom Penh and in
- Kompong Thom.
- The captives were Lt. Comm. Alex Manning of the British Royal Navy, Lt. Alan
- Mettle of the Chilean Navy, Sgt. David O'Connor of the British Royal Marines
- and Cambodian interpreter Chea Narin.
- It was the fifth time that Khmer Rouge guerrillas have seized U.N. personnel
- in Cambodia since the U.N. Security Council on Dec. 1 imposed sanctions against
- the radical faction to force it to comply with a peace agreement signed in
- Paris 15 months ago. All the captives have been released unharmed.
- The Phnom Penh regime, installed with the help of Vietnamese occupation
- forces, the Maoist-inspired Khmer Rouge and two non-communist resistance groups
- signed the U.N.-brokered accord, under which UNTAC is to take the country to
- elections scheduled for April or May.
- But the Khmer Rouge dropped out of the peace process in June, charging
- Vietnamese troops have secretly remained in the country after Hanoi's official
- withdrawal from Cambodia in 1989 and demanding more power be transferred from
- the government to the four-faction Supreme National Council.
- The Khmer Rouge was responsible for the deaths of more than one million
- Cambodians during a four-year reign of terror before being ousted by invading
- Vietnamese troops in 1979.
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