While appealing to Cambodians to be tolerant and not to discriminate against homosexuals on the one hand and on the other hand has publicly disowned his lesbian daughter Hun Sen seemed to tell people that "do not do what I did, but do what I told you to do". For a national leader to lecture others to be tolerant and not to discriminate, while he himself is being intolerant and full of hates against gay people, is uncharacteristic of a man with a wisdom.
I wonder if he will disown her if she is his full blooded daughter. Hun Sen feels so shameful about having a gay daughter. He should be more shameful to have daughters and sons who have divorced and re-married many times. Which one is more shameful to him? A lesbian daughter who has only one partner or the straight, but promiscuous, sons and daughters? Most of his sons and daughters have married and divorced and remarried again. They are supposed to be the First Family whom many common people can look up to as a role model. If they behave so promiscuous and so sluttish they are setting a bad example to the nation. Hypocrisy of a should-be role model.
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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Women's rights campaigners in Cambodia lashed out at Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday for trying to disown his adopted daughter because she is a lesbian.
"You do not have to agree with her decision, but you have to respect her rights," said Theary Seng, executive director of the Center for Social Development in the war-scarred southeast Asian nation's capital.
Hun Sen, a former Khmer Rouge soldier, told a graduation ceremony this week he was "disappointed" that his 19-year-old daughter, whom he adopted in 1988, was a lesbian.
"I have my own problem -- my adopted daughter has a wife," he said. "Now I will ask the court to disown her from my family."
Hun Sen has been in charge of Cambodia for the last two decades and is not known for a liberal outlook to life or politics.
He and his wife, Bun Rany, have three sons and two daughters, and had kept the adoption of a third daughter a closely guarded secret. He did not reveal her name in his speech.
"I can educate people in the whole country, but I cannot educate my adopted daughter," he added. "We sent her to study in the U.S., but she did a bad job. She returned home and took a wife."
However, Hun Sen asked Cambodia's 13 million people to be more tolerant of homosexuals.
"I urge parents of gays not to discriminate against them, and do not call them transvestites," Hun Sen said.
© Reuters2007All
I wonder if he will disown her if she is his full blooded daughter. Hun Sen feels so shameful about having a gay daughter. He should be more shameful to have daughters and sons who have divorced and re-married many times. Which one is more shameful to him? A lesbian daughter who has only one partner or the straight, but promiscuous, sons and daughters? Most of his sons and daughters have married and divorced and remarried again. They are supposed to be the First Family whom many common people can look up to as a role model. If they behave so promiscuous and so sluttish they are setting a bad example to the nation. Hypocrisy of a should-be role model.
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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Women's rights campaigners in Cambodia lashed out at Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday for trying to disown his adopted daughter because she is a lesbian.
"You do not have to agree with her decision, but you have to respect her rights," said Theary Seng, executive director of the Center for Social Development in the war-scarred southeast Asian nation's capital.
Hun Sen, a former Khmer Rouge soldier, told a graduation ceremony this week he was "disappointed" that his 19-year-old daughter, whom he adopted in 1988, was a lesbian.
"I have my own problem -- my adopted daughter has a wife," he said. "Now I will ask the court to disown her from my family."
Hun Sen has been in charge of Cambodia for the last two decades and is not known for a liberal outlook to life or politics.
He and his wife, Bun Rany, have three sons and two daughters, and had kept the adoption of a third daughter a closely guarded secret. He did not reveal her name in his speech.
"I can educate people in the whole country, but I cannot educate my adopted daughter," he added. "We sent her to study in the U.S., but she did a bad job. She returned home and took a wife."
However, Hun Sen asked Cambodia's 13 million people to be more tolerant of homosexuals.
"I urge parents of gays not to discriminate against them, and do not call them transvestites," Hun Sen said.
© Reuters2007All
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