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Fears of violence

Fears of violence

In a front-page article in the PPPost (July 18), Vong Sokheng and Susan

Font report: "Fears of violence are increasing as election day draws closer."

It is a pity that the Post did not see fit to provide more detail.

My own limited contact with Cambodians seemed to me to indicate a decreasing fear

of violence as the campaign proceeded in relative peace. Of course, I would not have

presumed to generalize from such limited observations and declare that Cambodians

generally were becoming more confident. I am certain that Post journalists would

be even more circumspect about making a comparably unsupported generalization.

Therefore, unless my last statement is mistaken, the Post's reporters must have had

access to studies of Cambodians' fears of election-related violence conducted on

two separate occasions, or at least a study which asked interviewees about their

present and former fears.

It would clearly be of interest to many readers to know who conducted the study or

studies about the fear of violence, what areas of the country they covered, the date

of comparison on which fears were lesser, and the amount of change - ie, what percent

feared violence on the earlier date and what percent on the later date.

Can we hope that this information will be reported in the Post in the near future?

- Allen Myers - Phnom Penh

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