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...Khmer Rouge seemed to fear that the Cambodian People's Party, which represents the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen, had used the powers of incumbency to reward and intimidate so successfully that it was likely to take a majority of the 120 seats in the new constituent assembly. The only solution was to terrorize voters into staying away from the polls. The Khmer Rouge forces, believed to number about 16,000, have aggressively moved men and armaments into sparsely populated regions within striking distance of many major towns and villages. Their hit-and-run attacks, says a U.N. military...
CAMBODIA'S ELECTION IS NOT SCHEDULED TO BEGIN until May 23, but Khmer Rouge guerrillas are already casting their votes with bullets instead of ballots. Determined to scuttle the election or greatly reduce the turnout, the rebels killed more than 20 people in assaults on several Cambodian cities and brazen raids against units of the 20,000-member U.N. peacekeeping force. On Monday guerrillas wounded five Indian soldiers in Kampong Cham province and temporarily seized the airport in the city of Siemreab, home of the famed Angkor temple complex. Later in the week a Japanese policeman was killed...
...past half-century more than a quarter of the earth's people were controlled by political movements whose pursuit of the millennium was as fanatical as that of their religious counterparts -- and far more destructive. Soviet, Cambodian, Korean, Chinese communists relentlessly drove their people to extremes of privation and repression in order to hasten the arrival of full-fledged "communism," the millennium as foretold by that 19th century prophet Karl Marx...
...troops, to monitor the demobilization and disarming of the factions, has been abandoned, but some of the soldiers are bringing public health and other services to villagers. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees has been much more successful than expected in repatriating most of the 350,000 Cambodian refugees from along the Thai border...
...long term, the success or failure of the UNTAC investment will hinge on international concern and on whether, at last, Cambodian political leaders can cooperate with goodwill to address the underlying problems of their country. Yasushi Akashi, the personable Japanese who heads UNTAC, points out that UNTAC "cannot force Cambodians to be free." The international community and UNTAC need to be steadfast if Cambodians are finally to have the chance...