Last living relics of the Khmer Rouge regime is visiting Australia

Hun Sen, whom The Australian newspaper calls "one of the last living relics of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime," is currently visiting Australia under the invitation of Prime Minister John Howard (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

Fighting over our money

STREWTH
Sian Powell
The Australian
October 10, 2006

With friends like this . . .

ONE of the last living relics of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime, Prime Minister Hun Sen, is in Australia this week to do the diplomatic rounds. Hun Sen admits he was a Khmer Rouge diehard but says he was never one of the leaders. Since then, of course, he has launched his own bloody coup in Cambodia, ridding the nation of elected Prince Norodom Ranariddh. In Sydney yesterday he wore a sharp suit and presented a smiling face to the cameras. Our spies on the ground found it hard to tell whether his car was bulletproof. Accused of gross breaches of human rights, Hun Sen has a very full social and diplomatic agenda in Australia, peaking with a lunch hosted by John Howard at Parliament House tomorrow.