Khmer Rouge play spoilers to peace. (obstacles to UN peacekeeping efforts in Cambodia) (Cover Story)

From: Insight on the News | Date: January 18, 1993| Author: Crowe, Marc | Copyright information

A 1991 Paris treaty ushered in a U.N. peacekeeping team - and long-buried hopes - for Cambodia, torn by strife for 22 years. But the Khmer Rouge have sabotaged the effort - jeopardizing what is perhaps Cambodia's last chance.

Route 12 in central Cambodia is a rutted stretch of dirt road that cuts through the heart of Kompong Thom, a lazy province caught in the cross fire of civil war for the past two decades. Each time a U.N. truck rumbles up Route 12, past an impoverish...

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