He knows very well his party will lose. He was worried that an investigation of a grenade attack on a political rally last year will show that his bodyguards were responsible. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency had discovered that 600 tons of marijuana had been exported from Cambodia. He opposed a trial of former Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot by an international tribunal that Ranariddh said he had been close to arranging. Hun Sen said Thursday in Phnom Penh that there had been no coup.
Political parties remain untouched.
Hun Sen said Ranariddh was welcome to return to Cambodia, but if he did, he would be put on trial for negotiating with the Khmer Rouge, importing weapons and bringing soldiers into the capital. Ranariddh to return to Cambodia Ranariddh said he intended to go back to Cambodia, but would not say when or to which part of the country. Any civil war would necessarily mean more suffering, more destruction for my poor country, Cambodia. The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report. The Cambodian Genocide Program - an archive of bibliographic, biographic, photographic and geographic data.