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- <text id=93TT2433>
- <title>
- Feb. 08, 1993: Guerrilla Democracy
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 08, 1993 Cyberpunk
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- WORLD, Page 20
- Guerrilla Democracy
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Cambodia sets a date for elections but gains no assurance of
- peace
- </p>
- <p> Can a Democracy be born while bullets are flying? Cambodia
- may find out May 23-25, the date set for U.N.-sponsored elections
- for a national assembly. The Vietnam-installed government and
- three guerrilla groups, including the Khmer Rouge, agreed to the
- timetable, but there was no guarantee that the warring factions
- would put aside their ethnic hatred long enough to vote. Both
- the government and the Khmer Rouge have been accused of killing
- off enemies in a series of massacres. According to U.N.
- peacekeepers, a Khmer Rouge soldier confessed that he and other
- guerrillas slaughtered a group of 15 Vietnamese living in
- Cambodia.
- </p>
- <p> The Khmer Rouge's acceptance of the May election date
- seems meaningless, since the group still insists that it will
- not participate in the voting. Many observers believe the U.N.,
- which is spending more than $2 billion to bring peace to
- Cambodia, will hold the elections regardless of the situation--so that it can declare victory and leave.
- </p>
-
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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