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Page 2 of 2 Dear Roger, I was pleased to see that someone had replied to my article in the last issue of CUB. Democracy in action indeed! However, Roger fails to justify a number of things in his article. For instance, he ignores the fact that the so-called democratic forces of the ANS and the KPNLF have sunk to the depths of an alliance with the murderous, fascist regime of the Khmer Rouge. It would be compatible to the British going into an alliance with Nazi Germany in the Second World War. Vietnam is one of the poorest countries in the world and to invade Kampuchea for purely 'imperialist' reasons would be absolute lunacy. As I have said before it costs the Vietnamese millions of pounds to maintain their presence in Kampuchea. Why bankrupt the country 'imposing a regime on an 'unwilling' country? Vietnam have shown their goodwill by agreeing to withdraw all their troops by 1995, and have recently withdrawn one third of their troops. Intransigence indeed! By recognising only the 'Democratic Kampuchea' regime rather than the Heng Samrin regime all the aid goes to the rag tag coalition, the few tattered remnants of the ex-supporters of Pol Pot. Who is it that provides aid to the majority of the people in Kampuchea? You've guessed it, the Vietnamese. They do not as you imply intend redrawing the map of South East Asia. The only reasons they are there are (a) to prevent the return of the brutal Khmer Rouge regine. AND (b) to restore stability to that area. These criticisms coming from an organisation of States whose savage repression of their opposition and their avowed ethnocentricity are hypocritical in the extreme. Richard S. Euteneuer (Foreign Affairs Correpsondent) 17.12.1985
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