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Attempted Coup Quashed in Cambodia

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<i> From Associated Press</i>

The government suppressed an attempted coup Sunday, arresting one of the leaders and forcing the other--a son of King Norodom Sihanouk--out of the country.

Interior Minister You Hockry said Sin Song was under house arrest and Sihanouk’s son, Prince Norodom Chakrapong, had been forced onto a Malaysian Airlines flight nine hours after the attempted takeover.

Sin Song and Chakrapong led a failed secessionist movement after their Cambodian People’s Party lost U.N.-sponsored elections by a small margin in May 1993. They initially fled to Malaysia and then quietly returned to Phnom Penh.

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