28 November 2012

Hun Sen Backtracks

Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Prime Minister Hun Sen speech cock-up?

"...It is my fault because I did not explain everything."

Or, did Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Prime Minister Hun Sen realize, belatedly, that he had gone too far, and the Cambodian people and civil society weren't yet ready to rollover and cede full control of the country to Hun Sen and his CPP party?

Whatever the reason, (and I favour the later) there's a measure of good news in Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Prime Minister Hun Sen's flip-flop on his previous claim that he would not intervene in disputes if opposition political parties or NGOs were involved in helping land-grab victims.

See here for earlier story.

Hun Sen continued to say that he understood some NGOs played a valuable part in helping people when government authorities were unable to do do.

At least then Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Prime Minister Hun Sen sees a need to pay lip-service to the validity of a civil society in Cambodia. 

For now.

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