The World - News from Jan. 8, 1989

Cambodians marked the 10th anniversary of the end of brutal Khmer Rouge rule, and the head of the Vietnamese-supported government in Phnom Penh said there will be no going back. The Cambodian revolution “is absolutely irreversible,” President Heng Samrin said in a speech. More than a million Cambodians died during the 1975-78 Khmer Rouge rule that ended with a Vietnamese invasion in late 1978 and installation of a new regime in Cambodia on Jan. 7, 1979. Vietnam has promised to withdraw its troops by 1990, and Cambodian officials announced last week that the troops would leave by next September if a political settlement is reached.