PHNOM PENH. Cambodia. Sept 8: The radical Khmer Rouge said Wednesday that the U.N peacekeeping mission is leaving behind nothing but AIDS in Cambodia and suggested that people throw faeces in the mission chiefs face, reports AP.

The Khmer Rouge, which defied the peacekeepers' attempts to bring democracy to Cambodia. has been relatively quiet on the battlefield but stepped up Its antl-U.N rhetoric In recent weeks as the 18-month mission prepares to end."

The U.N peacekeepers " did nothing" except leave behind the AIDS virus, "the main parasite to poison the nation," the Communist guerilla group's radio station said.

Il said students have suggested that Cambodians reward U.N mission chief Yasushi Akashi by throwing faeces at him before he leaves this month.

The Khmer Rouge said It would unite with Cambodia's

newly elected government after the U.N mission withdraws.

The mission is to wind up In the next few weeks, after the newly elected national assembly adopts a constitution and forms a new government.

The government wants to avoid further bloodshed and end the civil conflict through negotiations, government spokesman Ek Sereyawath told a news conference Wednesday.

" Our idea is that the Khmer Rouge should return to the Cambodian community," Ek said. “ It's not good for them to stay fn the jungle."

He said Cambodian leaders agreed to provide for a king in the new constitution tn hopes of ending the war with the Khmer Rouge, which has supported the idea.

Head of State Prince Norodom Sihanouk is to be named king but only with powers to pardon criminals.

Ek indicated that Sihanouk might pardon the Khmer Rouge for killing hundreds of thousands of Cambodians during

its fanatical rule in the 1970s.

Sihanouk is to hold talks with the Khmer Rouge in Phnom Penh in October.

The Khmer Rouge signed a 1991 accord to end 13 years of war with a Vietnamese-installed government. But It violated the accord and boycotted U.N-or-ganised elections In May.

When Its former battlefield allies won the election, the Khmer Rouge made overtures to join the new administration.

Sihanouk's son, Cambodian government co-chairman Prince Norodom Ranariddh, indicated that the Khmer Rouge's hatred of the Vietnamese was widely shared.

In an Interview broadcast Tuesday night over the U.N radio, Ranariddh said that, as king, his lather would not let the Khmer Rouge's protests against the numerous ethnic Vietnamese In Cambodia go unanswered."

Ranariddh said many people, not just the Khmer Rouge, are worried about the problem of the Yuon. a derogatory word for the Vietnamese.