NOVEMBER 6 — The US and EU are considering withdrawing economic privileges from Cambodia for the way elections were held last year. The ruling party won all parliamentary seats because the opposition had been crippled. Opposition leaders were disqualified and their party dissolved. By western...
NOVEMBER 6 — The US and EU are considering withdrawing economic privileges from Cambodia for the way elections were held last year. The ruling party won all parliamentary seats because the opposition had been crippled. Opposition leaders were disqualified and their party dissolved.
Sihanoukville, on the Gulf of Thailand, is booming with port facilities straining to move a growing number of containers stuffed with apparel, bicycles and other products for the global market. Chinese and Japanese investments are pouring in, seemingly in competition with each other. The Communist but anti-Vietnamese Khmer Rouge emerged victorious and captured Phnom Penh in April 1975 before Hanoi took over Saigon the following month. US forces had left South Vietnam two years earlier.
As a matter of principle, PM Hun Sen would rather forgo these loans than repay the US government for a loan taken out by “traitors” who destroyed the country and set it on a path to utter ruin. The US government of course takes a very different view. The temples of Angkor Wat are well-known. What is less known is the discovery at Phnom Kulen, under forest and mud, of a city the size of Phnom Penh today. Satellite images show that Angkor had the biggest pre-industrial urban area in the world in the 11-13th century.
Many have since come home. Prince Sihanouk's son, Sihamoni, reluctantly left Paris where he was a happy dancer to return home as king and restore an ancient monarchy. Like many of his countrymen, King Sihamoni internalises a profound sense of duty to his people. Battle–hardened Khmer Rouge soldiers on the Cambodian side would have been a match for better Thai forces. Through the good offices of Asean, good sense prevailed and peace was maintained. In recent years, westerners worry that Cambodia is becoming too close to an economically-expanding China.
When the Mekong was a dividing line between two worlds during the Cold War, Cambodia was an arena fought over by the big powers. As the terrain is mostly flat all the way from Ho Chi Minh City to Bangkok, whoever controlled Cambodia immediately threatened its neighbours. It became a killing field during the genocidal regime .
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