Hun Sen Adds Voice to Reactions Against UN Envoy’s Report
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday appeared to add his voice to the strong government reaction against criticism from U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi. Mr. Subedi last month delivered reports on human rights and economic land concessions in Cambodia to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. His observations have already met with criticism from Om Yentieng, president of the government’s Cambodian Human Rights Committee, and spokesman at the Council of Ministers’ Press and Quick Reaction Unit Keo Remy. … “I feel sorry that a person came to Cambodia and wrote a report concerning the human rights situation and reflected on whatever he wanted. They have the right [to write the report] and we have the right too, but there is a group that said it is advice from the U.N.,” Mr. Hun Sen said. “He claims he is a law professor. If he is a law professor, why doesn’t he go to his country to help write a constitution?” Mr. Hun Sen said. …
