Lettre au Rédacteur en Chef du New York Times.
"This year is the 20th anniversary of the Paris peace accords that ended the Cambodian war and any further threat from the murderous Khmer Rouge" wrote Elisabeth Becker in her opinion published by the New York Times on August 17. This is, from someone who used to be a responsible journalist, a surprising statement.
Like her, I reported all the peace negotiations. Like her, I wrote many comments about UNTAC, the UN operation that was in charge of implementing the accords. But I do not share her global evaluation of the agreements signed in Paris in 1991 and the way they have been implemented. Because the peace accords failed to bring peace in Cambodia. They failed to end the Khmer Rouge threat.
