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...Already by June of this year, Cambodia was elevated slightly on the latest State Department tables to a tier 2 "watch list." Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak said that the government has its sights set even higher. "We don't want to stay on tier 2. We want to go to tier 1," he said. "We have the political will. Cambodia will not be a place for child sex tourists...
...went door-to-door through Phnom Penh's largest hotel today, hunting down opposition legislators and arresting them. At least one of Hun Sen's vocal critics was shot and killed while in police custody. "He was arrested by the government troops and he has died," said General Khieu Sopheak. The blithe efficiency of the announcement had many fearing a return to the bloody days of the Khmer Rouge. And also a return to the isolation: "Let the Cambodian people solve the situation without interference from outside," said Hun Sen in a national television address. But the coup is already...