Jul 20, 2016 | Pacific Daily News, Politics
I had hoped that somehow Cambodians of opposing political camps – the growing vocal and fearless population demanding change and the military and police defending Prime Minister Hun Sen – would see it in their nation’s interest to avoid bloodshed. Khmers say two...
Jul 3, 2016 | Pacific Daily News, Politics
As fearless Khmer citizens are emboldened to call for regime change in Cambodia, they confront an intransigent Hun Sen, who employs tactics to divide opposition groups and threatens arrests. Civil disobedience may end in bloodshed. Khmers say a candle shines brightly...
Jun 19, 2016 | Pacific Daily News, Politics
Cambodia was promised peace, justice, human rights and a system of liberal democracy, among other things, in the October 1991 Paris Peace Agreements signed by 18 governments (Australia, Brunei, Cambodia – the four warring Cambodian factions – Canada, China, France,...
Apr 29, 2016 | Cultural, Pacific Daily News, Politics, Post English
It is encouraging to me to hear the perspective of other, younger Khmer citizens who are investigating our country’s contemporary history. I value Chum Chandarin’s point of view. Today I will introduce this thoughtful young man and share his view of our country’s...
Apr 8, 2016 | Pacific Daily News, Politics, Post English
Some Khmer readers were mum over my last article, “Khmer people’s 1970 revolt,” for its implications for the Khmer monarchy and the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk, whom Khmers revered. As one in three Cambodians are between 15 and 29 years old, Premier Hun Sen has...
Mar 18, 2016 | Pacific Daily News, Politics, Post English
Premier Hun Sen’s continuing assertions that the destruction of Cambodia’s neutrality, the country’s “civil war,” Khmer Rouge genocide and the U.S. B-52 bombings of Cambodia, were the outcomes of a coup d’état led by Lon Nol-Sirik Matak on March 18, 1970, deny the...
