Expecting a bitter election campaign this year, Prime Minister Hun
Sen on Tuesday claimed that unnamed opponents were training young
Cambodians to insult him.
The claim—made during a speech to more than 3,000 students at a
graduation ceremony in Phnom Penh—comes after Mr. Hun Sen earlier this
month called for a new law to stop personal insults in politics.
“Normally, we have never taught our youth to insult. We always
educated our youth to have virtue, morality and to behave, but a group
of people are training people to insult,” Mr. Hun Sen said.
“The season of insults is coming,” he added, in an apparent reference to the campaign ahead of July’s National Elections.
While the prime minister did not specify who was schooling youths in
the art of insults, he said that some, likely meaning opposition
parties, were rewarding those who were critical of the government.
“Any youths that are good at insults, the more they insult, the
faster they are promoted,” the prime minister said. “If they arrive in
front of my house and shout ‘please change,’ they will go faster up the
ranks.”
He added that both the ruling CPP and opposition parties “should
agree on a standard—to teach people to do good things, not to insult
each other.”
On January 14, Mr. Hun Sen called for a new law to be adopted ahead
of elections that would sanction politicians in the country who use
insulting words in public, listing a spate of insults he said had been
used against him, including “blind man” and “country-seller.”
2 comments:
Hun Sen learnt everything from his father , Hun Neang
who got drunk everyday and insult his neighbors and
was violent to his mother, Dy Pok . Hun Sen's parents were
very poor so that they had no time to teach him moral and
let him steal things in village . When his parents moved to
live in Memot , he dropped school at six grade . There , was the right target for Vietcong and was recruited as young Vietminh ( 1966 ) .
AH Kwak Hun Sen insulted oppositions and the country for years. Does Ah Kwak ever hear himself?
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