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Cambodia

Tense Pause

After weeks of artillery fire, air strikes and mass displacement, the ceasefire along the Thailand-Cambodia border has brought a moment of stillness to a conflict that was spiralling dangerously out of control.

50 years on, Khmer Rouge’s shadow stalks

On 17 April 1975, tanks rolled into the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, to cheering crowds who believed that the country’s long civil war might finally be over.