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RAFFLES INSTITUTION (JUNIOR COLLEGE) JC2 Preliminary Examinations 2009 HISTORY 9731/02 Higher 2 14 September 200 9 Paper 2 History of Southeast Asia c1900-1997 3 hours COVER SHEET Name : CT class : Question No. For Examiner’s Use Only Marks 1 TOTAL

RAFFLES INSTITUTION (JUNIOR COLLEGE) JC2 Preliminary Examinations 2009 HISTORY 9731/02 Higher 2 14 September 200 9 Paper 2 History of Southeast Asia c1900-1997 3 hours READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your name and CT class on the cover sheet and all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen on both sides of the paper. Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid. Indicate the question numbers attempted in the space provided on the cover sheet. Section A Answer Question 1 . Section B Answer any three questions. At the end of the examination, fasten all your work and the cover sheet securely together. All questions in this paper carry equal marks. This document consists of 4 printed pages.

RAFFLES INSTITUTION (JUNIOR COLLEGE ) 2009 [Turn over 3 Section A You must answer Question 1. ASEAN’S RELATIONS WITH STATES BEYOND SOUTHEAST ASIA 1 Read the sources, and then answer the question. Source A During the last five years, the ASEAN countries hav e succeeded in mobilizing world public opinion, including the overwhelming majority of the non-aligned countries, against Vietnam. In 1982 and 1983, 105 countries voted for the ASEAN re solution at the UN which, inter alia , called upon Vietnam to approach the negotiating table, and urged a political solution which would include the total withdrawal of Vietnamese forces f rom Cambodia and the holding of free elections under international supervision. The ASEA N countries have also been largely successful in persuading the West and Japan to with hold their bilateral economic assistance to Vietnam until the problem of Cambodia is resolved. From a Singaporean diplomat’s speech delivered to a conference on the Cambodian crisis organised by Save Cambodia Inc. in Washington, DC on 11 September 1984. Source B The concept of neutralization advanced by Malaysia is aimed at safeguarding the same fundamental attributes of countries in this area an d is, therefore, to be welcomed. But if its prerequisite is the willingness of other nations, especially the big powers, to observe and respect such attributes and renounce all acts of illegal in terference and intervention into the internal affairs of Southeast Asian nations, and refrain from using military, political or economic pressure against them, then it would depend on the other nat ions to make it work