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To: Sergio R. Mejia who wrote (18174)	9/9/1998 2:15:00 AM
From: Alex	Respond to of 116895

Great post Sergio.................. Anger Runs Throughout Southeast Asia Riot Police in Urban Battles in Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia RIOT police fought running battles yesterday in cities across South East Asia, shattering the uneasy calm that has reigned there for the past few weeks. Security forces took to the streets of Phnom Penh and Jakarta, as governments struggled to assert their authority in the face of growing economic chaos and popular protests. In the Cambodian capital, the disputed Prime Minister, Hun Sen, ordered troops to remove demonstrators who had camped outside the National Assembly. The soldiers, wielding batons and rifle butts, were backed up by a water cannon and four fire engines as they swept through shelters erected by Cambodians protesting against alleged fraud in the July 26 national election. The assault followed an ultimatum by Hun Sen to leave the site by midnight on Monday, after grenades were thrown into his Phnom Penh residence. In Jakarta, security forces clashed with hundreds of students who had earlier smashed their way into the grounds of Indonesia's parliament, demanding the resignation of the ousted leader Suharto's successor, President B J Habibie. Two students were stabbed with bayonets, five were overcome by tear gas and three suffered head injuries, witnesses said. The clashes were the worst seen in Jakarta since the huge demonstrations of May which ended Suharto's 32-year rule. Students and opposition leaders accuse Mr Habibie of failing to resolve the economic crisis he inherited. In Malaysia, thousands of opposition supporters continued to gather outside the house of the former deputy prime minister and finance minister, Anwar Ibrahim, in some of the largest street demonstrations seen in Kuala Lumpur for decades. Mr Anwar, seen as an ally by those urging free-market reforms, was sacked last week by Malaysia's veteran Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamad, amid allegations of sexual misconduct, treason and other crimes, all of which he denies. Dr Mahathir has now appointed himself finance minister and is trying to isolate his country's currency from speculators through a raft of emergency currency controls. His government's increasingly authoritarian style will come under international scrutiny later this week when thousands of athletes arrive in Kuala Lumpur for the Commonwealth Games. The protesters' demands vary widely, and not every opposition leader is calling for human rights and full democracy. But the pattern is the same in many capitals. Gradual reforms, promised after the protests that swept the region earlier this year, are not proving enough to satisfy the victims of the Asian crash. Indonesia's justice minister will have spoken for many of the region's leaders yesterday when he begged protesters for more time. He said: "We ask for the chance to improve the situation. We have to be realistic because we have just been in the job for 100 days but we have done a lot." Across Asia, however, patience seems to be running out. The London Telegraph, September 9, 1998