Cambodian Shadows
By JOHN J. METZLER PARIS — The very name Cambodia evokes tragic memories and historic passions. This small Southeast Asian land which was ravaged by the Communist Khmer Rouge genocide a generation ago, then occupied by neighboring Vietnam, and later, resuscitated back to life by a long-forgotten United Nations peacekeeping and electoral mission in 1992, now is predictably overlooked by the international community. Cambodia has largely been forgotten in recent years. Cambodia may now be forsaken too with the predictable re-election of longtime leader Hun Sen. The die was cast. With an 82 percent national turnout, an absence of any serious opposition parties, Hun Sen, an old Khmer Rouge member who has politically reinvented himself many times, has been in…Continue Reading