![]() ![]() Furthermore, the guerrilla group also appears to maintain a small measure of nationalistic support in Cambodia's countryside, where it is seen as having led the 10-year battle against Vietnamese occupation troops, who went home last month. But despite their record of brutality - and the apprehension their very name evokes - the Khmer Rouge communists have over the last decade demonstrated staying power as an important military and political force to be reckoned with in Cambodia's elusive search for peace. Inside Cambodia, particularly here in the capital, they are feared as the secretive guerrillas in fatigues, Chinese-style caps and Cambodian khroma scarves who slip into villages at night to wage their campaign of sabotage and assassination. PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA - To most of the world, they are loathed, a grotesque historical aberration responsible for one of the century's greatest horrors - the deaths of 1 million to 2 million Cambodians from malnutrition, malaria, forced labor and execution. ![]()
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