The Last Northerner
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« on: October 08, 2015, 11:47:04 PM » |
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The Cambodian People's Party is fairly pro-Viet Nam and played an instrumental rule during the liberation from the Khmer Rouge. It's one of those authoritarian post-Communist parties that is more corrupt than red and labels everyone who opposes it fronts or apologists for the Khmer Rouge. They claim their tactions are to educate the populace and prevent the rise of another Khmer Rouge... basically 'vote for us or else Pol Pot comes back'. It works well for Cambodians to lived through the era but less so on the younger people who didn't.
Funny enough, their main opposition (The Cambodian National Rescue Party) has quite a few Khmer Rouge apologists/deniers and mixes in anti-Vietnamese slogans with their criticism of the government. Please ignore their English wikipedia article as it is woefully incomplete and doesn't show how horrible these guys are.
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