To see people dying in AIDS hospices, on the streets and in their modest homes is to wonder if a country that endured so much suffering under the Khmer Rouge can bear any more grief. Clearly, Cambodia's agony did not end with the death of Pol Pot and the collapse of his regime. A new, more deadly scourge threatens to tear apart Cambodia's economic and social fabric. Cambodia's government and economy, weakened by decades of civil war, is ill equipped to combat this new, virulent enemy from within.
