Notes - Hun Sen's Cambodia - page 271

42. Brad Adams, “Marking the Anniversary of the Cambodian Coup Attempt,” Cambodia Daily ,
July 2, 2014.
43. Khatharya Um, “Cambodia in 1994: The Year of Transition,” Asian Survey 35, no. 1 (Jan.
1995): 76-83, at 77.
44. See “Further Evidence of Hun Sen's Mental State,” diplomatic cable from US Embassy Ph-
nom Penh (95PHNOMPENH3751), November 14, 1995.
45. Adams, “Marking the Anniversary of the Cambodian Coup Attempt.” For a contemporary
account of the coup attempt and its aftermath, see “How the Plot Unfolded,” Phnom Penh
Post , July 15-28, 1994. For more on the factional nature of the event, see Nate Thayer, “
'Coup' Plot Thickens,” Phnom Penh Post , July 15-28, 1994. In a 2002 interview with the
Cambodia Daily , Hun Sen put the plot down to “a person in the CPP.” Interview available at
http://cnv.org.kh/en/?p=185 (accessed Mar. 2014).
46. Widyono, Dancing in Shadows , 213-14.
47. Jason Barber and Ker Munthit, “CPP Draws Line in the Sand” Phnom Penh Post , April 5-18,
1996.
48. “Hun Sen: 'Live and Die with the People,'” Phnom Penh Post , May 3-16, 1997.
49. Ibid.
50. Widyono, Dancing in Shadows , 231.
51. Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Daily Report, East Asia , August 7, 1996.
52. A good account of Hun Sen's visit to Pailin is given in Widyono, Dancing in Shadows ,
233-6.
53. Ker Munthit, “Smiles All Round as One-Time Foes Join Hands in NUF,” Phnom Penh Post ,
March 7-20, 1997.
54. “'This Time We Will Fight,'” Asiaweek , March 23, 1997.
55. Jason Barber and Christine Chaumeau, “Slaughter on Sunday—March 30, 1997,” Phnom
Penh Post , April 4-17, 1997.
56. Ibid.
57. See, for instance, Amnesty International, “Kingdom of Cambodia: Grenade Attack on a
Peaceful Demonstration,” press release, March 31, 1997. For a full account of the attack and
its aftermath, see Rich Garella and Eric Pape, “A Tragedy of No Importance,” Mother Jones ,
April 2005. A longer version of the article is available online at ht-
tp://www.cambodiagrenade.info/ (accessed Mar. 2014).
58. Ibid. See note at http://www.cambodiagrenade.info/main/note0700e.html (accessed Mar.
2014).
59. Douglas Gillison, “FBI Found Partner Lacking in 1997 Investigation,” Cambodia Daily ,
December 10, 2009.
60. Douglas Gillison, “Documents Chart Thwarting of '97 Investigation,” Cambodia Daily ,
December 9, 2009.