Word: penh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although they signed on to the U.N.-sponsored peace plan in Paris 19 months ago, the Khmer Rouge refused to demobilize their fighters last June as called for in the accord, contending that the regime in Phnom Penh, installed by Vietnam in 1979, was still Hanoi's puppet. By March the Maoist guerrillas had launched a military campaign intended to destroy the credibility of the promised election. During April and May, Khmer Rouge fighters mounted scores of attacks, killing at least 80 civilians...
...tumult has increased fears for the safety of U.N. personnel; 50 volunteer election supervisors outside Phnom Penh have left their posts, adding to doubts that the U.N. force will be able to supervise the election throughout the countryside. Even if balloting takes place, the results of an election conducted under such conditions will be highly suspect...
...terror, made clear they will not go quietly. Just two days after the U.N. vote, gunmen believed to belong to the Khmer Rouge massacred 33 ethnic Vietnamese in a floating village on Tonle Sap Lake. The attack and continued harassment of opposition political parties by the Vietnamese-installed Phnom Penh regime raise serious questions about the ability of the U.N. to conduct "free and fair" elections...
...appears to be fear of UNTAC's liberating effect on their cadres and villagers. But their standard $ explanation is that they pulled out of the accord because UNTAC failed to insist on the withdrawal of all Vietnamese troops from Cambodia or to take control of the government in Phnom Penh, as required by the accord...
Once again, Khmer Rouge forces seized and held United Nations peacekeeping troops. Initially 21, mostly Indonesian paratroopers, were held for two days in a hamlet 100 miles north of Phnom Penh by about 70 heavily armed guerrillas, who refuse to cooperate with the U.N. peace plan; 46 U.N. troops negotiating to free them were also briefly detained before all were released. In a separate incident, the Khmer Rouge were holding nine others from the U.N. under a threat of death at week's end. The episodes cast doubts on both the U.N.'s credibility and Cambodia's plans for elections...