The year 2007 began with a controversy that threatened the credibility of the already fragile
Khmer Rouge tribunal and ended with the high-profile arrests of surviving senior Khmer …

FOR THE RULERS of Cambodia, as well as for their benefactors, the most important
question of 1974 was that of legitimacy. Which regime-that of Lon Nol in Phnom Penh or of …

Cambodians have since World War II endured an array of short-lived regimes unmatched by
any Asian country in number and intensity. 1 The most recent attempt to start anew, with the …

On 26 July 1998, Cambodians went to the polls for the first time since May 1993, when
elections had been organised by the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia …

Cambodia's long-time opposition leader and former finance minister Sam Rainsy is
committed to establishing democracy in his homeland. He is in exile in France to avoid a …

“What” do we want? We want peace, independence, freedom, and democracy. We want to
preserve our culture. We want development, self-sufficiency, good life, and a bright future for …

Twenty years after the Permanent Five Members of the United Nations Security Council,
joined by Australia, Japan, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), crafted …

Accountings of revolutionary situations often give way to a monopoly of concern for the
drama of revolutions. The gory consequences are often taken to be an explosion of societal …

The Cambodian elections of July 1998 sparked controversy over the issue of
“freeness”,“fairness”, and “credibility”. For some, it marked a new beginning in Cambodian …

CAMBODIA IS KNOWN for the agonizing political turmoil of the 1970s and 1980s, a chaos
that prompted even opposition leader Sam Rainsy to label it a “failed... sovereign democratic …