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8. Benny Widyono, Dancing in Shadows: Sihanouk, the Khmer Rouge, and the United Nations
in Cambodia (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008), 87.
9. Keith B. Richburg, “Hun Sen Making an Impact,” Washington Post , June 22, 1989; Steven
Erlanger, “In Phnom Penh, Vietnam's 'Puppet' Is Finding His Voice,” New York Times ,
August 27, 1989.
10. Dominic Faulder, “Grand Manipulator,” Asiaweek , September 27, 1996. See also “Hun Sen
Gets Hospital Treatment in Tokyo,” Reuters, April 24, 1991.
11. Richburg, “Hun Sen Making an Impact.”
12. Thach Saren, “… Does Anybody Care?” Washington Post , October 30, 1989; Thach Saren,
“Don't Excuse Hun Sen and Heng Samrin,” Washington Post , November 29, 1989.
13. “Cambodia's Hun Sen Is Himself Khmer Rouge,” New York Times , December 7, 1989.
14. Harish C. Mehta and Julie B. Mehta, Strongman: The Extraordinary Life of Hun Sen (Singa-
pore: Marshall Cavendish, 2013), 70.
15. Interviews by Ben Kiernan, October 21, 1980, Cambodian Genocide Program, Yale
University. See also Ben Kiernan, The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cam-
bodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996), 254.
Serge Thion claims similarly that Hun Sen became a communist messenger in March 1967.
See Serge Thion, Watching Cambodia: Ten Paths to Enter the Cambodian Tangle (Bangkok:
White Lotus, 1993), xxiii.
16. Translated material from the Central Stasi Archives Berlin provided by Bernd Schaefer, Woo-
drow Wilson International Center in Washington, DC, December 2012. The dates in the Stasi
biography are presumably based on what Hun Sen told the Vietnamese after his defection in
1977. According to the file, Hun Sen left school and began work at a factory of some kind in
Kampong Cham in 1967, where he faced persecution due to “activities against Sihanouk.”
After fleeing to Memot he again “joined the struggle of the peasants” and moved north up the
Mekong to Kratie, where he worked as a water seller until the fall of Sihanouk in March
1970.
17. Mehta and Mehta, Strongman , 93. See also Chou Meng, “A Talk with Prime Minister Hun
Sen,” Cultural Survival Quarterly 14, no. 3 (Fall 1990).
18. Mehta and Mehta, Strongman , 95-6. See also Barry Wain, “A Complex Pragmatist, Hun Sen
Remains Enigma with Elusive Beliefs,” Wall Street Journal , July 6, 1999.
19. In late 1998, after a resolution in the US House of Representatives condemned Hun Sen as
“one of the leaders of the Cambodian genocide,” historians Steve Heder and Craig Etcheson,
two leading authorities on the Khmer Rouge, wrote to Congress to say that the accusation
had “no basis in fact or law.” See Jeff Smith, “Rohrabacher Rebuked for Attack on Hun Sen,”
Cambodia Daily , September 30, 1998. Regarding House Resolution 553 see Tom Fawthrop,
“'Irresponsible' and 'Baseless' Anti-Hun Sen Campaign Hits US Congress,” Phnom Penh
Post , October 2-15, 1998.
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