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Article: Phnom Penh Recovering From Pol Pot's Rule; Cambodia Says It Is Growing Less Dependent on Vietnam
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- The Washington Post
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- April 4, 1987
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The streets of this once war-ravaged Cambodian capital, which was
deserted in the late 1970s when the former Khmer Rouge regime
forcibly evacuated the population, are now crowded with bicycles and
motorcycles.
Private markets display imported goods from Thailand and
Singapore. Many of the buildings gutted and blackened by earlier
wars are being renovated.
In a country that is still half at war and half at peace, Phnom
Penh, perhaps one of the world's most politically isolated capitals,
is struggling to present an air of normalcy.
Ever since Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia and installed a
sympathetic government here in 1979, resistance groups led by the
ousted communist Khmer Rouge ...