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83.
Brinkley,
Cambodia's Curse
, 140.
84.
Cited in Seth Mydans, “Cambodia's Coup Leader Puts on a Democratic Face,”
New York
Times
, July 14, 1997.
85.
Philip Gourevitch, “Pol Pot's Children,”
New Yorker
, August 10, 1998.
86.
The 11-member NEC was theoretically neutral. In practice, however, the CPP came to dom-
inate the election committees at the provincial level. See “Provincial Commissions Show
Huge Party Bias,”
Phnom Penh Post
, April 10-23, 1998. For more on the history of the NEC,
see “Cambodia: Systematic Problems Undermine Elections,” statement from Human Rights
Watch, July 26, 2013.
87.
Human Rights Watch,
Cambodia: Fair Elections Not Possible
(New York, June 1998).
88.
The elderly Son Sann retired from active politics in January 1997 and died in Paris in
December 2000, at the age of 89.
89.
Solarz's comment was widely disseminated in the media, though some claim he was quoted
out of context. See Ron Abney, “Groupie-Like Gushing,”
Phnom Penh Post
, August
29-September 11, 2003; Stephen Solarz, “Cambodia: A Reasonably Fair Election,”
Washing-
ton Post
, September 4, 1998.
90.
Bou Saroeun and James Eckardt, “CPP Demos: The Empire Strikes Back,”
Phnom Penh
Post
, September 18-October 1, 1998.
91.
Harish C. Mehta and Julie B. Mehta,
Strongman: The Extraordinary Life of Hun Sen
(Singa-
pore: Marshall Cavendish, 2013), 318-19.
92.
In 1999 two SRP members were arrested for the crime and then released for lack of evidence.
See Saing Soenthrith, “Activists Accused in Rocket Attack Released from Prison,”
Cambod-
ia Daily
, March 7, 2000. In 2008 Hun Sen again accused the SRP of involvement in the at-
tack. See Yun Samean, “PM Orders Probe into SRP Plot Charges,”
Cambodia Daily
, June 16,
2008.
93.
Michael Hayes, “Another Chapter Opens as Hun Sen Gives Prince Ranariddh the Deal,”
Ph-
nom Penh Post
, November 27-December 10, 1998.
94.
Nate Thayer, “Day of Reckoning,”
Far Eastern Economic Review
, October 30, 1997.
95.
Seth Mydans, “At Cremation of Pol Pot, No Tears Shed,”
New York Times
, April 19, 1998.
96.
Ta Mok's comments are cited in David P. Chandler,
Brother Number One: A Political Bio-
graphy of Pol Pot
(Boulder: Westview, 1999), 186.
5 Potemkin Democracy
1.
Statistics are taken from United Nations Development Programme,
Human Development Re-
port 2000
(New York: UNDP, 2000).
2.
Samreth Sopha and Eric Pape, “Budget '98: 43% for Army and Police,”
Phnom Penh Post
,
December 5-18, 1997.
