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- <title>
- Mar. 22, 1993: Bye-Bye Ballots
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 22, 1993 Can Animals Think
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 22
- WORLD
- Bye-Bye Ballots
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Elections in Cambodia will proceed but without the Khmer Rouge
- </p>
- <p> Even its staunchest ally could no longer support Cambodia's
- most violent guerrilla faction. China's vote last Monday made
- unanimous a Security Council resolution to proceed with
- national elections in May--even though the Khmer Rouge will
- field no candidates. The decision apparently eliminates any
- chance for the Maoist group to be included in a coalition
- government, though no one can predict what will happen after the
- 20,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force leaves. The Khmer Rouge,
- who were responsible for the death of at least a million
- Cambodians during their 1975-79 reign of 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.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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