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While the radical Islamists held a scimitar to the throat of freedom of expression over cartoons, Hun Sen, Cambodia’s dictator, was throttling those who dared speak out against his misdeeds and Vietnam’s grab of a good portion of Cambodia’s border. Prime Minister Hun Sen is the epitome of the old adage that a tiger never changes his stripes. First by a coup d’état in 1997 in which over 100 members of the Royalist Party democrats were murdered, then through rigged elections, and now through his kangaroo courts, Hun Sen has managed to intimidate and silence all opposition to his fascist...

October 31, 2004, 12:42 p.m. John Kerry's Other Vietnam WarWhy would we trust this man to be our president? By Stephen Morris John Kerry has fought this election campaign as a political moderate. Certainly his main foreign-policy advisers are moderate Democrats. But that campaign posture disguises his 34-year record in public life — which produced no legislative achievement, but featured a well-documented obsession with Vietnam and Cambodia that continues to the present day. Kerry made his four and a half months of service in Vietnam an electoral issue, but it's his 34 years of political activism on Vietnam and...

Cambodian labor leader Chea Vichea fatally shot in Phnom Penh PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - A prominent Cambodian labor leader affiliated with the country's main opposition party was fatally shot Thursday on a street in Phnom Penh, in the latest in a series of suspected political killings. Chea Vichea, president of the Cambodian Free Trade Union of Workers, was shot at least twice in the chest at close range while reading at a roadside newsstand, said the owner of the newsstand, Va Sothy. "There were two assailants,'' Va Sothy said. "One was waiting on a motorcycle and the other walked...