for this are as follows: Wilfred P. Deac, " Road to the Killing Fields: The Cambodian War of 1970-1975 " ( Texas A & M University Press, 1997 ) pp. 61 – 2 ; Robert Dallek, " Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power ," ( Harper Collins, 2007 ), p. 191 ; Steve Heder " Cambodian Communism and the Vietnamse Model, Volume I: Imitation and Independence, 1930-1975 ," ( White Lotus Press, 2004 ), p. 156.: It seems likely that Lon Nol initially intended to strengthen his position against the North Vietnamese with the ultimate aim of preventing their troops ( and those of the Viet Cong ) from operating within Cambodian borders, and wished to apply pressure on Sihanouk to achieve this.

In 1997, Pol Pot ordered the execution of his right-hand man Son Sen for attempting peace negotiations with the Cambodian government.

In 1997, Cambodia established a Khmer Rouge Trial Task Force to create a legal and judicial structure to try the remaining leaders for war crimes and other crimes against humanity, but progress was slow, mainly because the Cambodian government of ex-Khmer Rouge Cadre Hun Sen, despite its origins in the Vietnamese-backed regime of the 1980s, was reluctant to bring the Khmer Rouge leaders to trial.

The " Dr. Haing S. Ngor Foundation " was founded in his honor in 1997 to assist in raising funds for Cambodian aid.

Son Sen ( June 12, 1930 – June 15, 1997 ) was a Cambodian Communist politician and soldier.

In 1997, a French-language center opened in Phnom Penh and French-language education began to revive in Cambodia and dozens of Cambodian students study abroad each year in France.

The Khmer Unity Party, is an Cambodian opposition party founded in 1997 by its actual president Khieu Rada, who was previously part of the royalist FUNCINPEC party.

In July 1997, Funcinpec leader Norodom Ranariddh, who was serving as first prime minister, was deposed by second prime minister Hun Sen of Funcinpec's rival and coalition partner, the Cambodian People's Party.

In 1997 the Cambodian government asked for the UN's assistance in setting up a genocide tribunal.

** The First Congo War takes place in Zaire from 1996 to 1997, resulting in Zairian dictator Mobutu Sese Seko being overthrown from power on 16 May 1997, ending 32 years of his rule.

The classic case of a corrupt, exploitive dictator often given is the regime of Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( which he renamed Zaire ) from 1965 to 1997.

He held the Bolivian presidency twice: from August 22, 1971 to July 21, 1978, as a dictator ; and then again from August 6, 1997 to August 7, 2001, as constitutional President.

Quiroga was elected as Vice President of Bolivia in 1997 running on the Nationalist Democratic Action ticket with former dictator Hugo Banzer.

The party placed second in 1997 with Juan Carlos Durán ( the Bolivian constitution prohibits direct re-election of a sitting president ), who lost the contest ( and the presidency ) to the former dictator Banzer.

* In March 1997, BHHRG member Anthony Daniels wrote an article for the Sunday Telegraph: " The Media Back the Communists as Usual ", in which he claimed that British journalists Miranda Vickers and James Pettifer, were " supporters of the former Stalinist regime of the late Enver Hoxha ", the former communist dictator of Albania.

The First Congo War ( November 1996 to May 1997 ) was a revolution in Zaire that replaced President Mobutu Sésé Seko, a decades-long dictator, with rebel leader Laurent-Désiré Kabila.

He was a high-ranking member of the various governments formed by dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, who was president from 1965 to 1997.

It is formed by followers of Johnny Paul Koroma, who ruled as military dictator from 1997 to 1998 after deposing the elected government of Ahmad Tejan Kabbah.

In late 1997, he and Andrew Mwenda ( now managing director and also Editor-in-Chief of The Independent news magazine ), then a reporter with The Monitor, were arrested and charged " publication of false news " following a story in which the paper quoted reports in The Indian Ocean newsletter, that Uganda had become compensated with gold by the Kinshasa government of Laurent Kabila, for its support in, along with Rwanda, helping oust the regime of long-term Zaire ( now the Democratic Republic Congo ) dictator Mobutu Sese Seko.

An FAO survey done in the northern regions in spring 2002 showed that in four provinces ( Balkh, Juzjan, Sar-e Pol, and Faryab ), there was a loss of about 84 % of cattle from 1997 to 2002 and around 80 % of sheep and goat.

* 1997 – Before fleeing his northern stronghold, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members.

Poppet ( 1912 – 1997 ), John's daughter by his second wife, married the Dutch painter Willem Jilts Pol ( 1905 – 1988 ) whose daughter Talitha ( 1940 – 1971 ), a fashion icon of 1960s London, married John Paul Getty, was famously photographed in Marrakesh by Patrick Lichfield, and, after a brief hedonistic life, died of a drug overdose.

Pol Pot ´ s last interview with Nate Thayer, 1997

Along with the rest of his family, he was killed on the orders of Pol Pot during a 1997 factional split in the Khmer Rouge.

He was murdered on June 15, 1997, alongside 13 members of his family, including women and children, on orders of Pol Pot, who at the time was fighting his last battle to regain control of the Khmer Rouge from Ta Mok.

Johnson also won the Seniors Pot Black Trophy in 1997, beating Terry Griffiths in the final.

A senior version, called Seniors Pot Black was held in 1997, featuring players who were over 40 at the time.

Vine also hosted Senior Pot Black in 1997.

In 1997, Mans returned briefly to the UK snooker scene after a twelve-year hiatus, participating in the " Seniors " Pot Black special on BBC2 timed to coincide with the 1997 World Championship, which marked the 20th anniversary of the tournament being held at the Crucible Theatre.

His last TV appearance as a player came in 1997 when he took part in Seniors Pot Black.

* 1997 – Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.

However, in the run-up to the 1997 general election, Labour opposition Tony Blair was in talks with Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown about forming a coalition government if Labour failed to win a majority at the election ; however there was never any need for a coalition to be formed as Labour won the election by a landslide.

Deng Xiaoping ( Pinyin: Dèng Xiǎopíng, ; 22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997 ) was a politician and reformist leader of the Communist Party of China who led China towards a market economy.

* 1997 – Protestant paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

* 1997 – Deng Xiaoping, Chinese Communist leader and revolutionary ( b. 1904 )

Frederik Willem de Klerk ( born 18 March 1936 ), often known as F. W. de Klerk, was the seventh and last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994. de Klerk was also leader of the National Party ( which later became the New National Party ) from February 1989 to September 1997.

Following his resignation as Prime Minister, Major briefly became Leader of the Opposition, and Shadow Foreign Secretary ( as Sir Malcolm Rifkind, who was Foreign Secretary prior to the election, had lost his seat ), and remained in this post until the election of William Hague as leader of the Conservative Party in June 1997.

In 1997, when Gingrich was embroiled in a House ethics controversy, Kemp served as an intermediary between Dole and Gingrich to save the Republican Party leader.

By the time Labour returned to government in 1997 after 18 years in opposition, Tony Blair ( leader since 1994 ) had abandoned the Labour policy of going back on Tory-led union reforms, as well as ending the commitment of nationalisation of industries and utilities.

Charles Taylor won the 1997 presidential elections with 75. 33 percent of the vote, while the runner-up, Unity Party leader Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, received a mere 9. 58 percent of the vote.

The campaign and its leader, Jody Williams, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for its efforts.

He became Prime Minister because in 1994 he was elected Labour Party leader and then led the party to victory in the 1997 general election, winning 418 seats compared to 165 for the Conservatives and gaining a majority in the House of Commons.

He was leader of the Liberal Democrats in the Lords until 1997.

In 1997, Louis Farrakhan, the leader of The Nation of Islam, an African American Islamic organization, served as a " co-officiator " at a blessing ceremony presided over by Moon and Han.

* December 11 – Tung Chee Hwa is appointed to become the new leader of Hong Kong after it reverts to Chinese rule in 1997.

** Deng Xiaoping, Chinese leader ( d. 1997 )

Gelbart-scripted films for television included Barbarians at the Gate ( 1993 ), a true story about the battle for control of the RJR Nabisco corporation starring James Garner that was based on the best-selling book of that name ; Weapons of Mass Distraction ( 1997 ) starring Ben Kingsley and Gabriel Byrne as rival media moguls and And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself ( 2003 ) starring Antonio Banderas as the Mexican revolutionary leader.

The Loyalist Volunteer Force ( LVF ) leader Billy Wright was shot dead in December 1997 by two Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ) prisoners.

In October 1997, the mayor's City Council floor leader, Patrick Huels of the 11th Ward, the Daley family's home ward, resigned in disgrace amid allegations he used his aldermanic office to benefit his private security firm, which got a loan from city contractor and close Daley friend Michael Tadin.

In 1997 he did not seek re-election as Labor Party leader and was replaced by Ehud Barak.

( McCleary 1997: 2-3 )., ( Bowers 1992: 21 ) Their leader No Intestines had received a vision and led his band on a long migratory search for sacred tobacco, finally settling in southeastern Montana.

Bildt himself was married to Kerstin Zetterberg 1974 – 1975, Mia Bohman ( daughter of former Moderate party leader and Minister of Economy, Gösta Bohman ) 1984 – 1997 and is currently married to Anna Maria Corazza since 1998.

Judi Bari ( November 7, 1949 – March 2, 1997 ) was an American environmentalist and labor leader, a feminist, and the principal organizer of Earth First!

Gilles Duceppe, who had served as interim leader after Bouchard stepped down, became leader of the Bloc in 1997 and remained leader up until 2011, resigning after the 2011 federal election.