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Article: Cambodia's Killers Win Again.(Khmer Rouge war crimes need an accounting)(Brief Article)
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- Newsweek International
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- February 25, 2002
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Ever since the largest U.N. mission in history arrived in Cambodia in the early 1990s to supervise elections, it has been the friend that keeps on giving. The United Nations and donor nations continue to shell out millions of dollars each year to help rebuild virtually every aspect of Cambodia's decimated society. But last week the United Nations announced it was abandoning Cambodia in perhaps the country's most important rehabilitative effort of all: bringing to justice those responsible for 2 million deaths during the 1975-79 Pol Pot regime. After nearly five years of negotiations, Secretary-General Kofi Annan concluded that Cambodia was unwilling to take measures that ...