Cambodia, where Do We Go from Here?: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session, September 28, 1998, Volumul 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998 - 72 pagini |
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Pagina 56 - HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, SUBCOMMITTEE ON ASIA AND THE PACIFIC, Washington, DC.
Pagina 5 - I would ask unanimous consent that my entire statement be made a part of the record, without objection.
Pagina 51 - WHILE LEGALLY OBLIGATED TO DO SO, THE NEC DECLINED TO ADDRESS ALL BUT A FEW OF THE MORE THAN 800 ELECTION DAY AND COUNTING IRREGULARITIES CHARGED BY THE OPPOSITION; • THE CONSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL, SUPPOSEDLY THE FINAL ARBITER OF ELECTIONS APPEALS, LIKE THE NEC REFUSED TO HEAR THE MAJORITY OF OPPOSITION COMPLAINTS AND SIDED COMPLETELY WITH THE NEC ON ISSUES IMPORTANT TO THE OPPOSITION, INCLUDING USED AND UNUSED BALLOTS, RECOUNTS, AND ASSEMBLY SEAT ALLOCATION...
Pagina 49 - HAS OBSERVED MORE THAN 70 ELECTIONS IN OVER THREE DOZEN COUNTRIES IN DOING SO, WE HAVE ONLY ONE ASSET THAT MATTERS, AND THAT IS A REPUTATION FOR IMPARTIALITY -- A WILLINGNESS TO CALL AN ELECTION PROCESS LIKE WE SEE IT, AND TO DO SO WITHOUT REGARD TO WHO WON OR LOST. MOST RECENTLY, OUR APPROACH LED IRI TO CALL THE 1995 HAITIAN ELECTIONS FLAWED, EARNING US CRITICISM FROM DEMOCRATS HERE IN CONGRESS.
Pagina 49 - BECAUSE OF: • THE JULY 1997 COUP, AND SUBSEQUENT DESTRUCTION OF OPPOSITION PARTY INFRASTRUCTURES; • THE FAILURE TO ALLOW OPPOSITION LEADERS TO RETURN UNTIL LESS THAN SIX MONTHS BEFORE BALLOTING, THE DENIAL TO THEM OF ACCESS TO MEDIA ONCE IN-COUNTRY, AND THE MURDER OF UP TO 100 OPPOSITION MEMBERS WITHOUT ANY RESOLUTION TO THE CRIMES; • THE OVERWHELMING RULING CAMBODIAN...
Pagina 63 - NDI is proud to have worked with these coalitions, using funds from the National Endowment for Democracy and the US Agency for International Development, for the last three years.
Pagina 53 - CAMBODIA, WITH A LONGER HISTORY OF DICTATORSHIP, HAD AN ELECTION RUN ~ AND LOST - BY FORMER COMMUNISTS IN 1996 WITHOUT ANY ELECTION-RELATED MURDERS NOR MUST A COUNTRY BE A LONGSTANDING, WEALTHY DEMOCRACY TO PROPERLY COUNT AND RECOUNT BALLOTS. ONE OF THE MOST WELL CONDUCTED ELECTIONS IRI HAS OBSERVED WAS THE 1994 AUTONOMOUS COUNCIL...
Pagina 8 - In the interest of time, Mr. Chairman, I would like to ask that my whole statement be incorporated in the record so I will not have to read it.
Pagina 20 - In a Cambodia that is not a state of law and not a full-fledged democracy, I have no other choice than to advise the weak to choose a policy that avoids misfortune for the people, the motherland, and themselves