Phnom Penh, the legacy of the Khmer Rouge's murderous rule two decades ago is still evident.
The United States should similarly press China to reduce its support for the Khmer Rouge.
Khmer Rouge bosses told Mr Thayer they would not hand Pol Pot over to international courts.
When the Khmer Rouge moved into Phnom Penh in 1975, Sihanouk returned as head of state.
He refused to break with the Khmer Rouge who still held much military power.
During the 1980s, Beijing was the principal source of aid, through Thailand, to the Khmer Rouge.
The imminent collapse of the Khmer Rouge does not end the questions, of course.
The Paris Peace Accords that year brought Cambodia's warring factions together, including the Khmer Rouge.
Many who did hear accounts of Khmer Rouge brutality found them hard to believe.
Besides, says Hun Sen, the U.N. has some nerve pontificating about the Khmer Rouge.
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Flirted disastrously with Khmer Rouge hardliners in 1997 but now a born-again advocate of justice.
In the 1970s he was with the Khmer Rouge, his enemy the U.S.-backed Lon Nol regime.
An unknown number of Khmer Rouge cadres were simply lynched during the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia.
Educated, urbane and charming, 56-year-old Sopheap is not the kind of Khmer Rouge most people know.
Sopheap missed the 1975 Khmer Rouge "liberation" of Phnom Penh as he was in Hanoi.
Eng Chanthy, 47, lost her father, six brothers and grandfather to the Khmer Rouge due to starvation.
But there are conflicting accounts about the whereabouts of Khmer Rouge heavyweights Ta Mok and Pol Pot.
To many, that sounds like an excuse, since the Khmer Rouge defectors have little fighting clout left.
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Two other key Khmer Rouge figures are thought to be dead but may still be at large.
And to break them, to make them loyal only to the Khmer Rouge, they would make them do terrible things.
Last year, when a Khmer Rouge leader toppled the democratically elected government, we mustered merely a polite protest.
When the Khmer Rouge seized power in 1975, Sihanouk returned as head of state but was subsequently detained.
To fund their fighting, the Khmer Rouge became businessmen -- people they would once have killed on principle.
In a meeting in November 1975, then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger acknowledged the brutality of the Khmer Rouge.
Hun Sen had asked the world body in 1997 to help find justice for the Khmer Rouge's atrocities.
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Effectively a retirement home for mass murderers, Pailin houses at least four former leaders of the Khmer Rouge.
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Concerted pressure from aid donors would win his co-operation, however reluctant, in bringing Khmer Rouge leaders to trial.
Cambodia's prime minister, Hun Sen, among others, is a former Khmer Rouge cadre.
Sihanouk later condemned the Khmer Rouge for the deaths of the Cambodians, including of several of his own children.
It was from there that he struck an ill-fated deal with the emerging Maoist rebel force, the Khmer Rouge.
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