Paranoia Setting In as CPP Ponders Its Fate
Popular discontent with the government has been met with increasing paranoia as the ruling CPP chooses crackdowns over attempts to win back its popularity.
Mr. Rainsy said that a government responsible for rampant social and economic ills would have fallen long ago in a democracy, and that there was a growing realization that in order to continue to survive, “the CPP must suppress or slowly kill democracy.”
“This will be the name of the game in the foreseeable future. There are many possible scenarios in this context: increasing repression, political assassinations, state terrorism, state of emergency, coup d’etat,” he said.
“The elections scheduled for 2017 and 2018 could be cancelled or postponed or become farcical with the regime losing its legitimacy and Cambodia becoming a pariah state.”
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