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<text id=93TT1251>
<title>
Mar. 22, 1993: Bye-Bye Ballots
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Mar. 22, 1993 Can Animals Think
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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THE WEEK, Page 22
WORLD
Bye-Bye Ballots
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<p>Elections in Cambodia will proceed but without the Khmer Rouge
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<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.
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