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Article: SOLDIERS EMBARK ON LOOTING SPREE IN PHNOM PENH COUP BID SOWS CHAOS IN CAMBODIA.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- July 7, 1997
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Dawn broke over a capital city in chaos today as soldiers attempting a coup d'etat by Cambodia's Second Prime Minister Hun Sen began looting parts of Phnom Penh.
Army units loyal to First Prime Minister Norodom Ranariddh, who is in France trying to organize a resistance to Hun Sen's power play, were holding out in pockets in the western portion of the city.
Although no gunfire was reported as the overnight curfew ended at 6 a.m. today, Hun Sen's troops maintained their siege around the compound of Nhek Bunchhay, Prince Ranariddh's military chief.
In heavy fighting yesterday, they captured Ranariddh's political party's headquarters as well as his ...