Hun Sen Tells Ratanakkiri’s Minorities Their Future Is Rubber

On the second day of his two-day visit to Ratanakkiri, Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday cajoled indigenous minority members about their ready adoption of new technology amid the shift away from traditional ways of life, and extolled the benefits of rubber plantations over their rotational farming methods. Mr. Hun Sen, who was speaking to more than 500 mostly ethnic Tampoun minority members in the province’s Andong Meas district, also had words for an unnamed foreigner whom, he said, had angered him by blaming the government’s promotion of rubber plantations on the destruction of indigenous minority culture. …

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