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[desultude]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050616/ap_on_re_as/cambodia_hostages

[Teufelswacht]

Looks like it's over.

[desultude]

The seige may be over, but I am willing to bet something serious is brewing down there. It will be sad but interesting to watch things develop. Those men probably represented a group, my guess the Khmer Rouge, given the part of the country, and Han Sen (sp?) the president
(or dictator or Vietnam's puppet) will not sit by.

I see on the news that the Cambodian government is blaming it on drug using youths. Right. I guess it is possible.

[Teufelswacht]

[rapier]

The Khmer rouge never really went away. For those of you that think the killing fields was a thing of the past, let me reassure you it could happen again.

There was never any justice handed out to the perpetrators of that genocide... No trials, truth or reconciliation. Former khmer rouge murderers are still at large in the country, many of them have been given good government jobs.
Just visit there..you'll know what I mean. Corruption is rife..the poor have nothing, and the few rich have everything.

That area around Siem reap and the northwest of the country is a stronghold of Khmer rouge support- its the place where they retreated to when the vietnamese sorted them out.
Although I am fairly positive now that Cambodia has opened up and is winning new money from tourism, there'll be no going back to the bad old days; guess the new prosperity is not happening quick enough for some though.

Cambodia Rocks. ! its definitely themost interesting country in SE Asia. loved it.

[JacktheCat]

From the latest reports, it sounds like they weren't terrorist at all, but just common criminals. Actually, they were the school's security guards looking to make some extra cash off the children's "rich" foreign parents.

And they shot the 3-year old Canadian kid in cold blood because the police weren't meeting their demands.

I hope inmates in Cambodian prisons treat child killers the same as they do in America.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050616/ap_on_re_as/cambodia_hostages;_ylt=AtMHW0S6BdWL3fnBzx7CtTys0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2MTQ3MTFjBHNlYwN0cw--

[guangho]

It's interesting that they considered guns and grenades more valuable than $30,000- about 120 million riels. I honestly think they were in this for the thrill of killing, not the money.

[dulouz]

BBC says they wanted $1000.

[guangho]

The men originally took about 70 people hostage but later released 30 of them, Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said. Three of the hostages were teachers, according to Prak Chanthoeum, who said that the attackers "were armed with shotguns" and had demanded $1,000, six AK-47 assault rifles, six shotguns, B-40 grenade launchers, hand grenades and a car.

He later said $30,000 and a van were given to the hostage takers, but they still refused to free the hostages and continued to demand guns and grenades.

(yahoo news)

[thorin]

I love Cambodia but life is cheap there. You can have anyone's head for $100 or buy an AK47 for $50 and do the job yourself. Nobody there speaks of the Khmer Rouge anymore. It's the Cambodian People's Party now.

[FUBAR]

Well, the real reason for the seige was revenge on a South Korean man and his family.

[guangho]

[The Great Wall of Whiner]

[rapier]

Koreans are notorious in SE Asia for their bad manners and obnoxious ways. As tourists, they march everywhere in large gangs, complaining and whining at everything. They probably go home with more stress than they first went on holiday with.

Has the real reason behind the siege been reported in korean newspapers?

[rapier]