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...Atilla the Hun, Ghengis Khan, Tricky Dick, Lorena Bobbitt. No longer the victim, she's now the perpetrator...
...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...
...final weeks of the campaign, how to deal with the Khmer Rouge has become the defining issue. Pol Pot's forces say they will not peaceably accept victory by "the Vietnamese aggressors and their puppets." Hun Sen's party has promised to wage an all-out war to eradicate the guerrillas. FUNCINPEC, the opposition party founded by Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the country's interim head of state, has pledged to bring them into a coalition government. Sihanouk's eldest son, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, argues that with a government dedicated to expelling the Vietnamese and establishing social justice, the Khmer Rouge...
...MONTHS, THE 22,000-STRONG UNITED NAtions Transitional Authority in Cambodia has responded to complaints of cease-fire violations by claiming that it was powerless to stop them. Meanwhile, the Khmer Rouge have systematically enlarged the area they control. Now the Hun Sen government has taken matters into its own hands, retaking much of the lost territory in a large-scale military operation in the northern and western parts of the country. Hun Sen has offered to withdraw his troops behind a buffer zone that would be policed by U.N. troops. UNTAC officials declined; though the U.N. has the firepower...
...despite the growing threats from the Khmer Rouge and Hun Sen's regime, the election can be brought off in most of the country, UNTAC will have given Cambodians a chance to move toward more representative government. The best outcome would appear to be a coalition between Hun Sen and the anticommunists under the state presidency of Prince Sihanouk. Some UNTAC officials suggest the inclusion of one or two Khmer Rouge in the interests of achieving real "national reconciliation...