Hun Sen calls on police to be loyal whilst Rainsy travels to France

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday called on security forces to strengthen their loyalty to the current government, and warned that opposition members causing problems on the country’s disputed border with Vietnam would be clapped in irons, regardless of parliamentary immunity.

The remarks were made in a speech to some 5,000 senior military and police officials at the headquarters of the premier’s Bodyguard Unit in Kandal’s Takhmao town – often referred to as the “Tiger’s Den”.

According to a member of the armed forces who attended yesterday’s speech, and who spoke on condition of anonymity, Hun Sen had also called on the armed forces to immediately take measures against any political group attempting to topple the “legitimate” regime.

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PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – Hours after a court sentenced 11 opposition figures, including the party spokesman, to up 20 years in prison, Sam Rainsy, the party president, boarded a flight from here to Paris.

Knowing that opposition followers will stew over this fact this weekend, Mr. Rainsy yesterday furiously conducted damage control. From Paris, he drafted a lengthy self-justification and then gave a long interview to the French newspaper, Liberation.

In that interview, Mr. Rainsy confidently predicted that Prime Minister Hun Sen is preparing to leave power. That seemed to fly in the face of a stern speech the Prime Minister gave back here yesterday, telling army and police generals to crush any sign of a “color revolution.”

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