The Cambodian People's Party has billboards and banners all over the place. They have ruled since 1979. Hun Sen just won another election, but there is suspicion that the election was fixed. A mass of people held a peaceful protest in Phnom Penh which turned violent when the riot police showed up.
Hun Sen worked as a commander for the Khmer Rouge. He fled to Vietnam for a while and returned to Cambodia to begin his new political career as dictator - errr, I mean the Lord Prime Minister, Supreme Military Commander of Cambodia.
I asked a Cambodian (whose name I withhold) of their opinion of Hun Sen. The response was, "I cannot say. I might be killed." (pause) "I see how many people don't have a job, and I see the roads. But I ignore it."
I watched a propaganda film on t.v. yesterday. It depicted scenes of Cambodian people hard at work doing their jobs in the fields and factories. Uplifting patriotic music in the background, and while there was no narration, I got the point.
Hun Sen worked as a commander for the Khmer Rouge. He fled to Vietnam for a while and returned to Cambodia to begin his new political career as dictator - errr, I mean the Lord Prime Minister, Supreme Military Commander of Cambodia.
I asked a Cambodian (whose name I withhold) of their opinion of Hun Sen. The response was, "I cannot say. I might be killed." (pause) "I see how many people don't have a job, and I see the roads. But I ignore it."
I watched a propaganda film on t.v. yesterday. It depicted scenes of Cambodian people hard at work doing their jobs in the fields and factories. Uplifting patriotic music in the background, and while there was no narration, I got the point.
Jimmy Carter should visit there!
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