Given the track record of the last 30, a0 years . Why on earth do you still believe what you call democracy will prevail . Because nobody is eternal. Hun sen is 72 year old. And many, many cambodians among the young generation, they are hoping for a democratic change. Well, yes, but the point about hun sen is that hes clearly getting older but the whole point of this election is that as soon as the election were done, he told the nation that he is handing the reins of power to his son, hun manet, who now sits in the parliament and will be cambodias next Prime Minister. But for the cambodian people, this succession within the same political clan the same family, actually is just unacceptable. Scoffs. Its easy in a way for you to say that with great confidence, sitting here with me in the hardtalk studio and from your home in exile in paris, but the reality for cambodians is the Hun Sen Regime if i can put it that way, because he still is the leader of the ruling party, even though he is
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i said cambodia has lost territory to neighbouring countries. for instance, the island called koh tral because hun sen signed a treaty giving that island, belonging to cambodia, to a neighbouring country, so i have nothing to apologise because this is the truth. well, there are many human rights workers who worry you ve stirred up racism and to quote phil robertson who works, for or did work for human rights watch in asia when you were saying some of this stuff he said racism is a problem that encompasses not only rainsy s party but other parties as well. it is an ongoing problem and the way you are using the language, he said, it could mean it bursts out into larger violence. so, ijust wonder if you ve got any regrets about the way you used this xenophobic, nationalistic tone? no, not at all. for instance, the spokesperson for the government used the same term, so it means that it is common language, whether you are in the opposition