Canadian ambassador, Donica Pottie, "very concerned"

As an update to yesterday's post, Canada has become the latest country to publicly criticise the political crackdown in Cambodia.

And the editorial in the Bangkok Post News pulls no punches. It says:

From illegal manipulation of the system to outright intimidation and bloody brutality, he (Prime Minister Hun Sen) has put Cambodia on a slippery slope to a violent dictatorship. Only international pressure now seems likely to stop him.

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