Moreover, Ranariddh is aware he needs to include the CPP in an alliance, much as the two parties distrust each other. He said the parties were reviewing their existing alliance signed in 1991, but he was not happy with it. Nor was he entirely convinced with the views of some foreign countries that this alliance was best for national stability. And while its politicians engage in rhetoric, Cambodians out in the countryside suffer the vagaries of economic neglect, without electricity, water and access to health care. The signs of civil war are visible in limbless young men on crutches, victims of landmines sown during the civil war. Cambodiais believed to have at least 40,000 mine victims, a tragedy that has not stopped extracting its price. There are six to eight million landmines, compared to a population of 9 million. There are also signs of bizarre economic development as Taiwanese and Singaporean firms build hotels, garment factories and breweries, as part of a foreign investment of some $3 billion—but only a mere 30 per cent is actually in play in the economy.