Article: Cambodian prince returns amid fears of `revolution'.(World)

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Prince Norodom Ranariddh returns to this war-torn nation today amid fears that he may be assassinated or arrested in connection with the army's fresh assault on Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge guerrillas.

The prince, recently convicted and then pardoned of arms smuggling by the country's tightly controlled courts, plans to run in national elections in July. If he is not allowed to compete, one key backer said, Cambodia will erupt in a bloody "revolution."

"I am the one who is negotiating with the Ministry of Interior about the prince's return," Ranariddh's close adviser, parliament member Ahmad Yahya, said in an interview.

"If ...

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