Tag Archive: Hun Sen

Legitimacy of Hun Sen regime questioned.

Legitimacy of Hun Sen regime questioned at the European Parliament Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Josef Weidenholzer has recently sent the following question on Cambodia to Lady Catherine Ashton, the High Representative… Read More

Ieng Sary Dead – Quo vadis Khmer Rouge Tribunal?

Former Khmer Rouge foreign minister, Ieng Sary, died Thursday morning, March 14, 2013, at the age of 87. KR war criminal. Ieng Sary passed away in a Phnom Penh hospital, while still under the… Read More

Cambodian reality – Phnom Penh police beat protesters.

Cambodian police beat protesters. Cambodian police have beaten demonstrators who were marching toward the prime minister’s house to protest being evicted from their homes. The violent confrontation is a reminder that land grabbing… Read More

KR genocide: justice delayed – justice denied?

Under Cambodia’s murderous Khmer Rouge, Meas Mut and Sou Met, now two-star generals in their 80s, are said to have hauled prisoners to S-21, a torture center that symbolizes the horrors of a… Read More

Cambodia Reality Check: PM decries cronyism and nepotism.

Premier decries nepotism PM Hun Sen warned his party’s top brass to avoid nepotism and cronyism as they finalized re-appointments of provincial, district and municipal officials. Hun Sen cautioned that he, personally, would… Read More

Thailand: Stop killing Cambodian log poachers.

The Cambodian government called on Thai authorities to use the courts and not guns against Cambodian citizens caught poaching protected timber. The Cambodian government released figures showing 45 Cambodian loggers were shot dead… Read More

Nepotism and cronyism in full swing in the land of the Khmer.

During the National Elections in summer of 2006, PM Hun Sen promised that his son Hun Manet never would enter politics in Cambodia as long as he was still in charge of the… Read More

Cambodia’s king is dead, long live the Prime Minister.

Late King Sihanouk has spent 63 years in power, or was interested in power. Hun Sen could be a kind of Sihanouk without the title. He has overcome all times and all changes. He still has… Read More

Norodom Sihanouk – Au commencement était le verbe…

Un retour sur ce qui fut une des assises du pouvoir de Norodom Sihanouk , et de la fascination durable qu’il exerça sur son peuple: sa maîtrise du « verbe ». Le chercheur Nasir Abdoul-Carime a décrypté… Read More

Au Cambodge, une monarchie de façade

Bien que très respectée par les Cambodgiens, l’institution royale n’exerce aucun pouvoir. Le pays est dominé par le parti du premier ministre Hun Sen. Depuis plus de trois mois, des Cambodgiens de tous âges… Read More

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