Last Khmer Rouge Rebels Reconcile

The last holdouts from a once-mighty Khmer Rouge guerrilla army were inducted into the Cambodian military, opening what was hailed as a new era of peace after almost three decades of bloodshed. About 1,700 guerrillas in Anlong Veng, 200 miles northwest of Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, put down their rifles in a reconciliation ceremony. However, former guerrillas have warned that they will take up arms again if the movement’s leaders are put on trial for the bloodshed wrought under the Khmer Rouge’s rule in the late 1970s that left more than 1 million people dead.