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| Prime Minister Hun Sen’s eldest son, Hun Manet, talks to the media at the Phnom Penh airport last month after returning from a trip to Australia. Pha Lina |
Analysis: Father’s shadow long for Hun Manet
Phnom Penh Post | 4 November 2016
In August 1989, as Hun Manet was nearing his 12th birthday, his
father was in Paris, piquing the international media’s attention as the
gangly young prime minister leading the Vietnam-backed Phnom Penh
government in talks to end Cambodia’s bloody civil war.
Cambodia’s Hun Sen: In Phnom Penh, Vietnam’s ‘puppet’ finds his voice, proclaimed a headline in the New York Times,
which noted the ex-Khmer Rouge guerilla’s growing self-confidence as he
traded barbs with then-Prince Norodom Sihanouk, head of the resistance
and 29 years his senior.
Hun Sen, remarked the newspaper, had grown from a “tongue tied”
27-year-old to an “articulate and unintimidated” prime minister of 38,
who, for young Cambodians who had little memory of Sihanouk’s reign,
“represents modernity”.
Today, as the premier looks to extend his rule at the 2018 national
election, the task of representing modernity for his Cambodian People’s
Party has fallen to his children.
Over the past year, it has been Hun Manet who has been tasked with
following in his father’s footsteps abroad and cultivating support on
foreign turf, long the domain of the opposition.
Now 39 years old, the scion has found the going tough.
Beset by protesters in the US and Australia and entangled in a legal case lodged in California,
Manet has been confronted by the inherent tension in his role – one
that seeks to play down the misdeeds of his father, while still serving
as his representative.
Hun Maneth is a son of Yuon/Vietnamese criminal Le Duc Tho. Le Duc Tho is a Bun Rany's form husband. Bun Rany is a Vietnamese/Yuon bitch. She is also a Vietnamese secret agent, too, who can speak, read and write so well. She is very dangerous to a Vietnamese dog/puppet Hun Sen. Hun Sen is stuck with the Vietnamese/Yuon grip, that he can escape from or he is afraid of getting killed if he (Hun Sen) opposes or disagrees with his Vietnamese/Yuon masters in Hanoi.
ReplyDeleteKhmer patriot Mr. Pen Sovann was arrested and put in jail in Hanoi, Vietnam or Srok Yuon because of a Yuon/Vietnamese dog Hun Sen who was forced to do something against Mr. Pen Sovann. So, Ah Yong Yuon (Vietnamese puppet) enjoyed the power and wealth by robbing the Cambodia's natural resources and forests, making the secret trades with his evil Yuon/Vietnamese masters, and received the Yuon/Vietnamese military protections from his Yuon masters in Hanoi.