Thread: Thirty Years of Hun Sen Leaves Cambodia Decades Behind on Human Rights

THE 30TH anniversary of Hun Sen's rule in Cambodia highlights the need for influential governments and donors to strengthen efforts for human rights and democratic reforms, Human Rights Watch said in a new report today.

January 14, 2015, marks 30 years since Hun Sen took office as prime minister on January 14, 1985.



Hun Sen is now the sixth-longest serving political leader in the world, just behind Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and ahead of Yoweri Museveni of Uganda.

''For three decades, Hun Sen has repeatedly used political violence, repression, and corruption to remain in power,'' said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch and author of the report. ''Cambodia urgently needs reforms so that its people can finally exercise their basic human rights without fear of arrest, torture, and execution. The role of international donors is crucial in making this happen.''

The 67-page report, '30 Years of Hun Sen: Violence, Repression, and Corruption in Cambodia,' chronicles Hun Sen's career from being a Khmer Rouge commander in the 1970s to his present role as prime minister and head of the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP). The report details the violence, repression, and corruption that have characterised his rule under successive governments since 1985.

Hun Sen has ruled through violence and fear. He has often described politics as a struggle to the death between him and all those who dare to defy him.

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No one wants a war in that region again, the yanks lost against the VC and pulled out after an 11 year war and for what , to fight an Army on their own muck heap is 10 times harder.
Anyway there is no oil.

And he fills a power vacuum.

What a cowboy though. Remember that time he shot out the tyres on a jet he'd just been on ?

once the chines start to get on top of the corruption pervading their country they need to start to execute their citizens who have been funding corruption overseas