European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 12, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Afforded her with her first trip Home since leaving in april 1975, along with Pran and Ngor Vanna returned to her old neighbourhood in phenom penh. The three cambodians were accompanied by Diane Sawyer and an Abc news team which recorded the footage for a segment on 20/20. Vanna recalls How upon seeing the neighbourhood Quot i was shocked. It looked very different. Or. Ngor found a brother. I did no to see anyone i knew. I was very depressed. It took me a Long time to find my House because the Road to my Village looked different.�?�. The people in the houses did no to know any of her relatives. She cried. In mid-1989, the Strinko moved to Hanau Germany where de became director of the Community a army Community service a Post he held for a year before moving to bad Kreuz Nach in july 1990. On oct. 23,1991, cambodians waning factions and representatives of is nations signed a peace treaty in Paris in the Hope of bringing . Supervised free elections in Cambodia Vanna encouraged by cambodian friends and colleagues in Germany returned to Cambodia with the intention of forming Cambodia a first new opposition party a the Nev life democratic party. De and Vanna sent out Media advisories to reporters in phenom penh intending to make the announcement on oct. 30. A we thought something was strange red said. Out of nowhere cambodian foreign ministry offi rials showed up at their hotel room and began questioning them and examining their visas. Vanna who became an american citizen in 1982, was outraged. But it was Only the beginning. When they left their hotel to travel to the glitzy hotel cambodian for the press conference they were followed by two or three cars Eti said. When they arrived at the cambodian they were greeted by armed soldiers. A the normally tranquil hotel was crawling with uniformed men and others wearing dark glasses and carrying tape recorders and cameras a reported the Bangkok Post dated nov. 1,1991, a amps Vanna of Strinko was convicted after her protest in Washington then won an Appeal. At the same time of the Strinko press conference members of the foreign press were required to attend a briefing at the foreign ministry on the proper Wear of press credentials de said. So much for drama. As the reporters returned the announcement of the new political party was made quietly one by one to the reporters. Harassment including armed soldiers close by continued until the Strinko left the country a few Days later. The searches and paperwork requirements at the phenom penh Airport so infuriated Vanna that she almost demanded to be arrested. Vanna formally announced the new party a few Days later in Bangkok. The announcement was followed by an article in the nation on nov. 12,1991, wherein cambodian prime minister Hun sen said that Vanna a was trying to set up a gang not a political  dejected the Strinko returned to Germany and watched As the democratic political process a with significant help from . Observers a look shape in Cambodia. Vanna s party gained no seats in the elections held earlier this year. But one part of Vanna s new life democratic party platform did come to fruition. It was her idea to re establish the constitutional monarchy. Specifically she called for the return of Prince Norodom Sihanouk a exiled in the late 1970$ a and making him King. He was downed on sept. 24, 1993. What makes Vanna go one answer a a crying does  another answer is love of Cambodia. She and de Hope to return to her Homeland someday and maybe even live there. A the spirit of my people is with me a she said. A and my spirit is with  a Revei time i see someone like her i feel very proud a said Pran who today is a photographer with the new York times and a member of the cambodian delegation to the United nations. A she s a Model to other  Gary Poir Woy la a former Start and stripes reporter who moved last month to Washington . A. A cambodians first prime minister Prince Norodom ran Aridth Speaks beneath a portrait of his father King Norodom Sihanouk last month in phenom penh while marking the 40th anniversary of cambodians Independence from  cambodian a a. A a a protest and a supreme Triumph Vanna of Strinko a efforts to keep the. Genocide in Cambodia in the news went further than she expected a to the . Supreme court a in the aftermath of her arrest on Jan. 28,1985. Vanna and 18 supporters gathered outside the russian embassy in Washington to protest the then soviet backed vietnamese occupation of Cambodia. Like thousands of others before them they were arrested for violating the �?o500-foot Rule Quot a District of Columbia ordinance that prohibited protests within 500 feet of an embassy. But unlike anyone who was arrested before her a and with her a Vanna was prosecuted by the United states attorney in Washington. The decision to prosecute a for which she could have received 60 Days in jail and a $100 Fine a brought Swift National attention. Vanna in an interview with the new York times termed her Case a selective  t the Richmond a times dispatch and the Washington Post published editorials in her defense. Said the Post on March 27,1985 a talk about inconsistent treatment of demonstrators in this capital of the free world some 1,655 people Are charged with breaking a Law by demonstrating within 500 feet of the South african embassy and . Attorney Joseph e. Digenova has All Federal charges dropped before anybody goes to court. Then one woman is arrested in front of the soviet embassy and or. I Genova proceeds to prosecute her. Can you explain the difference a. Disc Nova a office told the new York times on March 14,1985, that previous arrests outside the South african embassy a which included Harry by Lafonte Jesse Jackson and members of Congress a were dropped because they a lacked prosecute be  Vannas Case was handled by the Washington Legal foundation a conservative Public interest Law firm. The firms executive director Paul Kampnar told the Columbus Ohio dispatch that he expected Vanna to be found guilty and that the Appeal would set the stage for appeals that test the constitutionality of the 500-foot Rule. Vanna was convicted in . Superior court on sept. 19, 1985, receiving a 30-Day suspended sentence. A after the trial Kamenar said a i ant confident we can win an  while Kamenar awaited a decision from the . Court of appeals he Learned that a similar Case a Boos is. Bariy a was pending review by the . Supreme court. Michael Boos had not been arrested or tried like Vanna. He was simply challenging the constitutionality of the 500 foot Law a Legal Brief based on Vanna s trial was attached to Boos is. Barry for the court to review. In june 1987, the supreme court shot Down the Law. And based on that decision the . Court of appeals overturned her conviction. An excerpt from her testimony in the trial sums up her resolve on the Issue a was you make your decision please remember the words of Gibbon in the decline and fall of the roman Empire a whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment the rigor of penal Law is obliged to give Way to the common feeling of  Gary Pomeroy december 12, 1993 sunday Page 5