People's Party win 'best option'

Wednesday, May 26, 1993 - 10:00

People's Party win 'best option'

By Chris Spindler

ADELAIDE — "The best case scenario" in the current Cambodian elections "would be a clear win for the Cambodian People's Party", Daryl Bullen told a Democratic Socialist forum here on May 19.

If there were no clear winner, it would open the way for the possible partitioning of the country.

Bullen said the main problem had been the inclusion of the Khmer Rouge in the peace process, an inclusion blamed on the US, Gareth Evans and the United Nations. "A peace agreement without the Khmer Rouge would have been possible", he said.

Bullen also outlined a number of demands that an ongoing campaign could take up, including that the UN convention against genocide be used against the Khmer Rouge and that humanitarian development assistance be given now to Cambodia.

From GLW issue 101