Word: untac
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...forces are also threatening to destroy the peace process altogether by refusing to demobilize their 27,000 fighters and allow UNTAC access to territory under their control. Their reason 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...
...complex and ambitious a program, the U.N. was lamentably slow in deploying UNTAC. Troops came piecemeal, and some were at first immobilized by lack of logistic support. Despite the large staff now in place, UNTAC has had difficulty asserting control over the Hun Sen administration. In the provinces, the handful of U.N. civil servants found themselves powerless in the face of entrenched local officialdom backed by all the government's resources, including police and troops...
...will kill you." The three men were withdrawn and did not return to Kraya until the end of September. Since then, Men Ron has refused to discuss any problems with them, always answering, "There are Vietnamese in the country. I will not deal with UNTAC." The Khmer Rouge have detained UNTAC observers on three occasions...
...factions is evident in the Supreme National Council. Meetings have not been easy, and Sihanouk, in poor health, has become weary. For the past few weeks he has been in Beijing complaining about the behavior of some of the factions. He has warned that unless both Hun Sen and UNTAC act vigorously "against the poisoning of the political atmosphere, social injustice and political terrorism," he will stop cooperating with them...
Some commentators have already written off UNTAC. They argue that the Paris agreement as such is dead, that UNTAC has failed to create secure conditions for elections, that too little has been done to de-mine the country and that there has been virtually no progress in economic rehabilitation. Donors pledged $880 million for Cambodia at a conference in Tokyo in June, but almost none of the money has arrived. If the economy functions at all, it is because Cambodia is still a country of subsistence farmers and fishermen...