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Three Takeaways From Sam Rainsy’s Attempt to Return to Cambodia
Posted On November 10, 2019
Cambodia’s Sam Rainsy, the self-exiled opposition leader landed in Kuala Lumpur over the weekend, vowing to return home to lead an uprising against his country’s long-serving Prime Minister and former Khmer Rouge officer Hun Sen.
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Sanctions Might Not Bring the Political Change the West Wants in Cambodia
June 11, 2019

Cambodia’s economic growth remains under threat, as the European Union (EU) begins the process of removing the country from the Everything-But-Arms (EBA) scheme, and more recently the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). The EU’s response to Cambodia stems from the government’s turn away from democratization that dates back prior to the 2018 general elections.


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Hun Sen Fears Civil Society Revolt in Cambodia
January 27, 2019

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen repeatedly lashed out at opponents last week in an attempt to respond to critics or potential rivals that could upend him in a coup d’etat.


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POW Diplomacy Won’t Ease Tensions Between Cambodia and Washington
October 14, 2018

Cambodia’s Foreign Ministry has announced that it had offered to resume cooperation in an effort to search for remains of Americans killed during the bloody Vietnam War, resuming a program that ended more than a year ago as diplomacy cooled between the two countries.


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Three likely developments in democracy-free Cambodia
August 11, 2018

In late July, Cambodia participated (sort of) in the General Election, without having the option to choose the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), which had been dissolved by the Supreme Court last November. The landslide victory by the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) all but assures Prime Minister Hun Sen of near total control of the country.