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...country that lost more than 1 million citizens to execution, starvation and disease caused by the cruel depredations of an outlaw regime possibly welcome back the architects of such madness? It is one of the saddest ironies in Cambodia today that the Khmer Rouge, whose reign of terror lasted from 1975 to 1979, have clawed their way back to a modicum of power. As the country's first democratic balloting in three decades begins this week, the party threatening to wreck the election is none other than the Khmer Rouge. Hope that the vote might usher in peace, along with...
...ideological campaign based on strident nationalism. His forces dropped all references to building a communist state. Villagers in Khmer Rouge zones were encouraged to cultivate their own plots and raise their own livestock, an approach designed to appeal to the 6 million subsistence farmers who form the bulk of Cambodia's 9 million inhabitants. During the early years of Pol Pot's reign, they suffered far less than urbanites, who were sent to work under harsh conditions in the fields, where they died by the thousands...
...peasants also find, says a U.N. official in western Cambodia, that "Khmer Rouge guerrillas make fewer demands on villagers than government soldiers do." Banditry in remote areas is a major problem for peasants. The government must tax them or extort contributions to finance local security, but the guerrillas provide it free out of the millions of dollars they have earned by selling logging and gem-mining concessions to Thai businessmen...
...that only they can root out the rampant corruption of the present regime and force some 500,000 hated ethnic Vietnamese from the country. Says a 24-year-old university student: "The Khmer Rouge can do some things better than the government. They can abolish corruption. They can ensure Cambodia's sovereignty...
...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...