WORLD : Cambodia Peace Talks Break Down
Talks among Cambodia’s four warring factions broke down at their first session today with the resistance coalition saying it will not return to the negotiating table.
“The division is more serious than ever,” resistance leader Prince Norodom Sihanouk said after he and his two allies met with Vietnamese-backed Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen.
“There is no point coming back tomorrow. . . . We said everything we need to say to each other,” he added.
Negotiations have been blocked by demands from the ultra- leftist Khmer Rouge for a share in running the country where an estimated 1 million people died during its previous rule from 1975 to 1979.
The four factions met in an effort to resolve internal Cambodian problems before a French-sponsored, 20-nation peace conference this weekend.
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