ADDED 10/17/2018
FROM 10/17/2018 | Asia Times
BY SAWATHEY EK
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has been met recently with a wave of protests by Cambodia’s diaspora communities living abroad, urging the international community to condemn his government as fake and illegal. These relentless and coordinated protests, starting from Australia, the US, South Korea and Japan, followed the July national election that the US government […]
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ADDED 07/18/2018
FROM 07/18/2018 | Open Democracy
BY ALICE BEBAN and LAURA SCHOENBERGER
We won’t know until the July 2018 elections whether this radical redrawing of the Cambodian political landscape is a ‘new normal’ of naked authoritarianism. What is happening is truly bad. In Cambodia, political violence in the run-up to the 2018 general election signals a move away from an explicitly populist authoritarianism towards a deeper authoritarianism. […]
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ADDED 07/07/2018
FROM 07/06/2018 | Niddei Asian Review
BY ATSUSHI TOMIYAMA
HANOI — A crowded field of 20 political parties will compete in Cambodia’s general election later this month, but Prime Minister Hun Sen is on course to retain his grip on power after eliminating the one that posed a real threat to his three-decade rule. Most Cambodians have watched in silence as the authoritarian government has […]
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