“There is nothing specifically Cambodian, or Asian, to the CPP’s flawed approach to democracy. What we are witnessing is simply what autocrats do the world over: harassing the opposition, jailing independent voices, and trying to intimidate society as a whole, including with a threat to use violence, in order to hold on to power.”...
“Our democracy is completely different from your country’s democracy,” he added. “We eat rice and you eat hamburgers.”
Minister Tells UN ‘Perfect Democracy’ Not Realistic
Cambodia Daily | 26 September 2016
Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn defended the government before the U.N.
General Assembly in New York on Saturday, saying that the ruling party
was being held to unrealistic expectations of a “perfect democracy”
while the opposition was “committing very serious crimes.”
Delivering his first major address to the U.N., the new foreign
minister was the latest government official to hit back at claims that
the CPP is attempting to cripple the opposition and other critics ahead
of local elections next year and national elections in 2018.
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