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🗓️ 7 February 2025
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Vietnam ends Democratic Kampuchea and the US backs the Khmer Rouge.
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0:00.0 | There's a resolution going around the UN Security Council tonight written by non-aligned countries |
0:06.0 | and calling for all foreign forces to leave Cambodia. The resolution does not name Vietnam, |
0:11.0 | but that's what it means. The Security Council may vote on it Monday and Russia will surely veto it. |
0:17.0 | When the Khmer Rouge were swept from power in 1979, Cambodian Prince Noradam Sianuk was freed from house arrest. |
0:27.6 | The decision to release him reportedly came at the urging of the Chinese government. |
0:33.6 | But Sianuk was still handcuffed to the Khmer Rouge cause as a figurehead in a new struggle. |
0:42.0 | Paul Pott informed the Cambodian royal that his new assignment was to defend his country against the Vietnamese invaders at the United Nations. |
0:53.0 | Upon his arrival at Peking, Prince Sionuk, perhaps the best-known Cambodian on the international |
0:59.0 | scene, held an extraordinary five-hour press conference. |
1:03.0 | I do not approve of the policy, the internal policy of Pol Pot. |
1:10.0 | No, I do not approve of his internal policy, his policy of violation of human rights. |
1:18.2 | But his external policy is good. |
1:22.7 | His determination to defend our territorial integrity and national dignity, national independence is good. |
1:32.3 | I approve of it. I will continue to support him. |
1:38.3 | When the prince and his wife, Princess Monique, arrived in New York City in January 1979. He was the freest he'd been |
1:48.6 | in many years. China was paying his $1,200 a day tab for a suite at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel |
1:56.6 | in Manhattan, and 10 blocks away at the Security Council, |
2:01.7 | Sienuk lobbied hard for the United Nations to condemn the military occupation of Cambodia |
2:07.9 | launched by Vietnam. The debate on Cambodia has been going on for three days now, |
2:13.8 | and Richard Hunt has this late report on it. |
2:16.6 | Prince Norah, and Sianuk with Ben King, Prime Minister, and elected Chief has this late report on it. Prince Noradam Sienuk, who has been king, prime minister, and elected chief of state in Cambodia, |
2:21.6 | is now a prosecutor, accusing Vietnam of invading his country and the Soviet Union of supporting |
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