PHNOM PENH. July 6: The Cambodian coalition government today held an emergency meeting of top officials to discuss a possible crackdown after last weekend's thwarted coup, a senior official said, reports AFP.

As the meeting began, troops surrounded the house of general Sar Moline, a former deputy to ex-Interior Minister Sin Song, who was Implicated in the failed coup, the source said, without elaborating.

The meeting, presided by co-premiers Hunsen and Prince Norodom Ranaridh. included the ministers of the Defence and the Interior, as well as high ranking officers from the military and security apparatus, he said.

"The plan of the meeting is to investigate and arrest other people who may have been involved in the coup. We do not know who. but it must be some high ranking officials." he said.

Fourteen Thais were detailed in connection with the abortive coup. Sin Song was ar rested, but Prince Chakrapong was allowed to leave for Malaysia on Sunday following an appeal from his father. King Norodom Sihanouk.

Meanwhile, the faf-left Khmer Rouge guerillas today accused the government of plotting the coup as a pretext for declaring "martial law."

The climate of tension, they said in a radio broadcast monitored in Bangkok, would pressure members of the cabinet and parliament to vote for a "fascist law" banning the Khmer Rouge.

Parliament. reconvened in Phnom Penh today to debate a bill that would formally outlaw the ultra-nationalist faction, which has been fighting a hit-and-run campaign against the government that emerged from the 1993 un-organised elections in Cambodia.