Cambodian PM threatens key rival with prison

[geovalin]

PHNOM PENH: Prime Minister Hun Sen, accused of intensifying a crackdown on dissent before Cambodia's 2018 election, threatened on Wednesday (Jun 29) to jail an opposition leader who has refused to come forward over an alleged sex scandal. Political tensions have risen in recent months, with rights groups accusing Hun Sen's government of arresting scores of critics and tying up other opponents in legal cases.

The main opposition party's deputy leader Kem Sokha has spent the past month holed up inside his party's headquarters after armed police tried to arrest him in late May. He is wanted for questioning in a prostitution investigation launched against a woman who claims to be his mistress. But the lawmaker has refused to be interviewed, arguing that the police probe is politically motivated.

"You (Kem Sokha) said Hun Sen is scared of losing an election, but I send you a message: You could be jailed without release. A prisoner! Don't be rude," Hun Sen, who has ruled Cambodia for 31 years, told an audience in Phnom Penh. "Even though you don't go to jail, still the jail could come to you. I am telling you in advance," he added.

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[phycokiller]

yes, jail, hes clinging to power because he knows it will come to him if he loses it

[elgordo38]

Mayalasia now Cambodia this disease is spreading.

[ggt]

PM threatens key rival with prison...so surprise here...this is what PM's do when the fear of losing power overtakes them...

This is not just a Cambodian problem...the world is filled with leaders who do not wish to relinquish or share power...

People the world over are wising up...Brexit...is just one example...the rise of Donald Trump is another...

[spidermike007]

Hun Sen is one of the great monsters of Asia. The US kisses his butt, by allowing him to refer to his government as a democracy, when it is anything but. Opposition leaders like Sam Rainsy have put up with untold amounts of harassment, and maltreatment from this super creep. He will do anything, say anything, hurt anybody, to maintain his power base. He is a very, very dangerous man.

[TheSiemReaper]

Hun Sen is one of the great monsters of Asia. The US kisses his butt, by allowing him to refer to his government as a democracy, when it is anything but. Opposition leaders like Sam Rainsy have put up with untold amounts of harassment, and maltreatment from this super creep. He will do anything, say anything, hurt anybody, to maintain his power base. He is a very, very dangerous man.

The only bigger danger to Cambodia than Hun Sen's continued rule is the rule that Cambodia would get under Sam Rainsy. The man may be an international darling of the "free thinking world" but he's a total and abject clown with absolutely no understanding of how to run a country (his economic policies are a straight up recipe for social collapse) and worse proposes his rise to power on racist hatred directed at the Vietnamese community (which numbers several hundred thousand people in Cambodia). It's like swapping Hitler for Stalin.