UN General Assembly
1982

and people can well understand why. What we do know is that some 3 million refugees have fled their country, imposing an enormous burden on its neighbours. Pakistan's impressive and generous handling of this problem deserves our admiration. We also know that the Afghan people continue to resist the imposition by Soviet arms of a regime they do not want. What a crime against humanity war is, and what a blot upon our collective record. 186. Then, in Kampuchea, an unrepresentative regime is also kept in power by the armed forces of its larger neighbour; in this case the invader was Viet Nam. The regime was imposed by military invasion more than three years ago. All the efforts of the United Nations and the neighbouring countries of the Association of South-East Asian Nations-which we have whole-heartedly supported-have so far failed to move the Vietnamese from their insistence on maintaining by force in Kampuchea a regime to suit their own interests. The recent formation of a coalition of Kampuchean resistance forces could prove a