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- Subject: CAM: Khmer Rouge release peacekeepers
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- 12/20
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- U.N. OFFICIAL SAYS KHMER ROUGE REBELS RELEASE GROUP OF PEACEKEEPERS UNHARMED
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- PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (DEC. 20) UPI - Khmer Rouge guerrillas Sunday released a
- group of peacekeepers they had earlier threatened to kill, a United Nations
- official said.
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- The release was secured after several U.N. officials and Khmer Rouge Gen. Nuon
- Bunno traveled by helicopter to the hostage site for talks with the guerrillas
- holding the peacekeepers and their MI17 helicopter.
-
- ''It is confirmed that both helicopters took off from the location at 4:45 p.m.
- with all men aboard and landed safely in Kratie,'' the U.N. spokesman said,
- referring to the provincial capital, 110 miles northwest of Phnom Penh.
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- The 11 U.N. hostages were part of a group of 14 detained Friday at a Khmer
- Rouge base about 90 miles northeast of Phnom Penh.
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- Those held were nine Uruguayans, one Russian soldier and a Russian helicopter
- crewman.
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- The captors released three captives Saturday - a Uruguayan soldier and two
- Russian airmen - and ordered them to take a warning to Bunno in Phnom Penh that
- if the United Nations tried to rescue the men, the Khmer Rouge would destroy
- any aircraft and kill all the hostages.
-
- The message also asked Bunno to go to the hostage site and take away the men.
-
- Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan told Cambodian leaders in a telegram made
- public Sunday in Phnom Penh he ordered his soldiers to release the men as soon
- as possible.
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- It was the fourth seizure of U.N. personnel in less than three weeks.
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- The Khmer Rouge, in a statement issued by its Phnom Penh office Sunday,
- rejected claims that the peacekeepers had been detained and accused the
- U.N.personnel of entering a no-go area.
-
- ''It is not the (Khmer Rouge) which has sent its forces to arrest or detain
- (U.N.) personnel...It is (U.N.) personnel that have entered the (Khmer
- Rouge)-controlled ones without informing beforehand,'' the statement said.
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- The Khmer Rouge letter said the incidents were propaganda aimed at misleading
- public opinion to get the U.N. Security Council to enforce sanctions against
- the Khmer Rouge.
-