In 1996 Ieng Sary, the regime's former Deputy Premier, was the first major cadre to defect to the government--strengthening Hun Sen's hand in his power struggle with then co-Premier Norodom Ranariddh--and was granted an official amnesty in return.

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That means Cubans wishing to play baseball in the Major Leagues have been forced to defect, escaping from Cuba at much personal risk.

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Testimony from former Czech Major General Jan Sejna, the most senior Warsaw Pact officer ever to defect to the United States, was cited to the effect that a substantial number of U.S. servicemen were secretly transferred from Vietnam to Russia via Czechoslovakia for heinous experiments with chemical, biological, radiological warfare and mind-altering drugs.

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