Vice President Hamid Ansari today embarked on a visit to Cambodia and Laos during which he will hold talks with leadership there to strengthen ties. Cambodian Premier Hun Sen's ruling party claimed an early lead in polls on Sunday, leaving him poised to extend his year grip on power after a vote overshadowed by a military standoff with Thailand.
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But in , Hun Sen put an abrupt end to this power-sharing arrangement, dismissing Ranariddh. Since then, he has never lost an election. Daily newsletter Receive essential international news every morning. Take international news everywhere with you! Download the France 24 app. The content you requested does not exist or is not available anymore. ON TV. Throughout their careers, they have served in government positions paying modest official salaries, yet they have amassed large amounts of unexplained wealth.
Over more than three decades, hundreds of opposition figures, journalists, trade union leaders, and others have been killed in politically motivated attacks. Although in many cases those responsible for the killings have been known members of the security services, in not one case has there been a credible investigation or prosecution, let alone a conviction. In some cases, triggermen or fall guys have been prosecuted, while their superiors go untouched.
Security forces have also arbitrarily arrested, beaten, harassed, and intimidated many other critics of the government, including human rights workers, labor activists, land rights activists, and bloggers and others expressing their views online. Hun Sen has orchestrated his repressive rule by promoting people based on loyalty to him instead of the military, gendarmerie, and police institutions they formally serve.
The report details the responsibility of 12 senior security force officers for human rights abuses in Cambodia from the late s until the present. Below are the positions each held in and any changes since then:. Although these officials have a legal responsibility to represent the state instead of a political party — and to carry out their duties in an impartial and neutral manner — all have acted in an openly and highly partisan manner. Members of the Central Committee are required to carry out all party policies.
This conflicts with international human rights standards, which protect the rights of members of security forces to be members of a political party, vote, and privately express their opinions. However, officials should not be politically partisan in carrying out their professional duties or favor one political party over others. Like Hun Sen, several of these senior officials were members of the Khmer Rouge regime, which between April and January was responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.
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