Rapid Reaction Unit Spokesman Blasts Critics of Hun Sen

A senior government spokesman held an impromptu press conference at the Council of Ministers yesterday to defend Prime Minister Hun Sen against critics and accused the U.N.'s human rights envoy to Cambodia [Surya Subedi] of being biased in his assessment of the country's electoral process. In his defense, Keo Remy, spokesman at the Council of Ministers' Press and Quick Reaction Unit, lambasted unnamed critics of Mr. Hun Sen who had apparently questioned how he could afford such a large house near to Phnom Penh's Independence Monument. ... Mr. Remy went on to say that Cambodia would be a much more corrupt country if the opposition was voted into power. ...