Cambodia’s fragile election process was jolted Wednesday by news that the country’s most revered leader, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, had decided to exclude the Khmer Rouge guerrilla faction from ...

SIHANOUK OPPOSES KHMER ROUGE ROLE. Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodia's head of state, announced today that he had abandoned plans to set up a coalition government that included the Khmer Rouge.

His former information official Prince Sisowath Thomico recalls that when politics got rough, ... The Khmer Rouge Era. In 1970, Sihanouk's trusted supporter Marshal Lon Nol ousted him in a coup d ...

When he was ousted, allegedly by a CIA-backed coup, he retaliated by supporting the Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge. Now he heads a […] Skip to content. ... SIHANOUK A MAN OF MANY POLITICAL COLORS ...

Prince Sisowath Thomico, a royal family member who also was Sihanouk's assistant, ... When the Khmer Rouge seized power in 1975 and Sihanouk returned home, ...

Once the Khmer Rouge took over, Prince Sihanouk returned to Cambodia as the symbolic head of state. But it wasn't long before he was placed under house arrest.

From exile, Sihanouk joined forces with the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, a move that helped the Maoist guerrilla movement gain followers and facilitated its eventual defeat of the U.S.-backed ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- Norodom Sihanouk, the revered former king who was a towering figure in Cambodian politics through a half-century of war, genocide and upheaval, died Monday. He was 89 ...

1970: Marshal Lon Nol stages a coup, forcing Prince Norodom Sihanouk out of power. Sihanouk is aligned with the Khmer Rouge, an ultra-Maoist group building up a following in the countryside.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — In his first speech inside Cambodia in two decades, Prince Norodom Sihanouk told a throng in front of the royal palace yesterday that his former enemies in the Phnom Pe… ...

SIHANOUK OPPOSES KHMER ROUGE ROLE. Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodia's head of state, announced today that he had abandoned plans to set up a coalition government that included the Khmer Rouge.

1970: Marshal Lon Nol stages a coup, forcing Prince Norodom Sihanouk out of power. Sihanouk is aligned with the Khmer Rouge, an ultra-Maoist group building up a following in the countryside.