HUN SEN TO MEET SAME FATE AS GADDAFI’S
On behalf of the Cambodian people, the Sam Rainsy Party, Cambodia’s
second largest party with over 1.3 million votes, congratulates the
Libyan people on the liberation of Libya from the dictatorship of
Muammar Gaddafi. We all learned with jubilation and admiration the
entry in Tripoli yesterday of the valiant Libyan freedom fighters
under the direction of Libya’s National Transitional Council.
Earlier this year, opposition leader Sam Rainsy declared in Manila,
“The worst regimes in terms of crimes and impunity are those whose
autocratic leaders have been in power for the longest period of time,”
and he called for the formation of a “Peoples’ alliance for the
removal of multi-decade dictators.” He associated Cambodia’s Hun Sen
(32 years in power) with Tunisia’s Ben Ali (removed after 23 years in
power), Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak (removed after 30 years in power),
Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi (JUST removed after 42 years in power!),
Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh (to be removed after 33 years in power) and
Syria’s Bashar al-Assad (to be removed after 40 years of dictatorship
including his father Hafez al-Assad’s 29-year reign of terror).
Last month Sam Rainsy went to Tunisia to meet with local and
international activists from various political and social backgrounds
who have successfully fought for a regime change in the North African
country through an unprecedented popular uprising that triggered the
Arab Spring or Jasmine Revolution eight months ago.
Leading Cambodia’s patriotic and democratic forces, the Sam Rainsy
Party vows to make sure that Hun Sen eventually meet the same fate as
Slobodan Milosevic’s or Muammar Gaddafi’s.
