Once a Khmer Rouge cadre ... still dressing like one stillThursday, March 13, 2008
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
During a chatting which took place at an edification inauguration and diploma distribution for newly graduated middle school teachers in the Takhmao city pedagogic center, Kandal province, on Wednesday, Hun Sen reminded people once again about his very successful life starting from his humble origin as a pagoda boy, and turning into a prime minister leading the country for many mandates and nobody could rule longer than him. Hun Sen told the graduating students: “Do you, nephews and nieces, know why, Hun Sen, who started as a pagoda boy, became the prime minister? And, this prime minister in Cambodia holds on to power the longest, no one remained as prime minister as long as Hun Sen, and he is staying so long that the opposition chased him out one day after another, but it couldn’t chase him out because people kept on voting for him. What I just said now, am I asking for the support for a fourth mandate? If you vote for me, I will keep on continuing again, and I will keep on doing it forever, there nothing to be puzzled about.”
