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	Online NewsHour: Hun Sen Interview -- October 21, 1997
		CHARLES KRAUSE: Despite Hun Sen's version of events, diplomats in Phnom Penh and several international rights groups tend to support Ranarridh's claim that he was forced to leave Cambodia.
		HUN SEN: (speaking through interpreter) We are going to investigate--we want to find out who did the killing.
		HUN SEN: (speaking through interpreter) A few days ago Ranarridh announced that he want to meet me and then yesterday he said he cannot work with Hun Sen. Those words that he said, that he cannot work with Hun Sen, this is the cause of the fighting in July.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/asia/july-dec97/hunsen_10-21.html (1222 words)

	Hun Sen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sâmdech ("Lord") Hun Sen, (born April 4, 1951) is the Prime Minister of Cambodia and is married to Bun Rany.
		Hun Sen was assigned to eastern Cambodia as a Deputy regimental commander in the Khmer Rouge army.
		Some political opponents of Hun Sen accuse him of being a puppet of Hanoi due to his position in the government created by Vietnam while Cambodia was under Vietnamese military occupation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hun_Sen (659 words)

	Who is Hun Sen?
		Hun Sen, and conversations with associates and scholars, is a complex person deeply marked by almost 30 years of guerrilla warfare, revolution and social upheaval.
		Hun Sen was a member of the Communist Party, nothing connects him with the Pol Pot faction that had a secret organization within the party and eventually controlled it.
		Hun Sen forged in the 18 months he was in Vietnam, as he and other exiles assembled an army from scratch, have proved critical in his subsequent rise.
	www.wright.edu /~tdung/hunsen.htm (2653 words)

	Hun Sen
		On November 15, 2001, Samdech Hun Sen was bestowed with the Honorary Doctorate Degree of Political Science (Honoris Causa) in the field of Foreign Relations from the University of Ramkhamhaeng, Thailand.
		It was presented in recognition of achievements scored by Samdech Hun Sen both in quantitative and qualitative terms.
		Hun Sen and Bun Rany have three sons and three daughters (one of whom is adopted): Hun Manet, Hun Mana, Hun Manit, Hun Mani, Hun Mali, and Hun Malis.
	angkor1431.tripod.com /index/id32.html (692 words)

	Hun Sen relishes role as Cambodia Cabinet meets (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Second Prime Minister Hun Sen is the supreme leader of Cambodia now, a position hard-earned by force of arms, and he savored his power on Thursday in his first public appearance since staging a coup last weekend.
		Hun Sen's role in the killings is not known, but scholars of the period say he did not rise high enough in the hierarchy to have been a major figure.
		Hun Sen showed his contempt for the prince when he met with reporters on Thursday, comparing him to Mike Tyson as a man who will bite when he cannot win.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/97/07/11/cambodia-hunsen.2-0.html (1040 words)

	Appendix: Report on Speech of Prime Minister Hun Sen on October 17. 2005 (Human Rights Watch, 18-10-2005)
		Hun Sen said the second reason for him to refuse to be Sihanouk's equal was that “when I was leading the struggle against Pol Pot, you [Sihanouk] were the head of Democratic Kampuchea, head of state of Democratic Kampuchea.
		Hun Sen added that this was not because “the government or the prime minister did not know about this, but the prime minister did not expose his own constitution to others, to neighbouring countries”.
		Hun Sen also warned: “Those supporters in the background who whisper things, regardless of they are, watch it, I may implicate you.” Concluding his comment on the border demarcation with Vietnam Hun Sen said: “The big issue is which maps to use, which ones; the ones that the king deposited at the United Nations.
	hrw.org /english/docs/2005/10/18/cambod11891.htm (2834 words)

	HARIAN UMUM SUARA MERDEKA (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hun Sen said it was difficult to understand how Khieu Samphan knew nothing of the atrocities committed given that he was head of state between 1976 and 1979.
		Hun Sen added that he used to negotiate personally with Khieu Samphan in the 1980s and 1990s which led to peace agreements and the UN involvement that followed in Cambodia.
		Hun Sen told reporters the UN had requested an English translation and the emphasis was now on accuracy.
	www.suaramerdeka.com /harian/0108/22/eng1.htm (546 words)

	The rise and rise of Hun Sen
		Hun Sen, as even his detractors admit, is quite simply the shrewdest politician in Cambodia.
		Mr Hun Sen controls the purse strings and the key elements of a vast military and police force in a shattered country where little else counts in terms of the ability to snare and keep power.
		Queen Monique has told foreign envoys that Mr Hun Sen is so "placid and gentle" now while her ever-flighty husband has said he will stay in Cambodia to swear in any coalition with Mr Hun Sen at the top of it.
	www.ngoforum.org.kh /Documents/Hun_Sen_RF/The_rise_and_rise_of_Hun_Sen.htm (1898 words)

	Cambodia: Beauty and Darkness: Hun Sen and Democracy
		Hun Sen's military coup in Cambodia can be traced directly back to the UN's failure to enforce the results of the 1993 elections.
		Hun Sen became Prime Minister of what was to become the State of Cambodia (SOC) in 1985, after serving as Foreign Minister since 1979.
		The son of a peasant family, Hun Sen had spent most of his adult life prior to the Vietnamese occupation as a member of the Khmer Rouge.
	www.mekong.net /cambodia/sen_demc.htm (1049 words)

	CNN - Cambodia's Hun Sen rules out talks with Ranariddh - Jan. 23, 1998
		Talking to reporters, Hun Sen denied that a cease-fire was being negotiated with resistance forces loyal to Ranariddh or that he would meet the ousted leader for peace talks.
		She was accompanied to Hun Sen's residence in Takhmau by Mary McCreery, the new head of the U.N. Center for Human Rights office in Phnom Penh.
		Robinson told reporters she told Hun Sen it was "very important" that the investigations show progress, and she said Hun Sen accepted her offer of having international experts in criminal investigations look into the preliminary findings about the post-coup killings.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9801/23/cambodia (837 words)

	Cambodia: Hun Sen and the 1997 Coup
		Hun Sen, fearing the effect that this might have on his attempts to consolidate his power, moved to crush Ranarridh before the Khmer Rouge could join him.
		Hun Sen's soldiers, meanwhile, celebrated their victory with a looting spree throughout much of Phnom Penh.
		After the incident, Hun Sen suggested that opposition leader Sam Rainsy, who arranged the demonstration (and whose bodyguard was killed in the attack), should be arrested.
	www.mekong.net /cambodia/hun_sen1.htm (848 words)

	Cambodia leader reverses position on suits - Boston.com
		But in a speech to graduate students Monday, Hun Sen said the court had replied to his request by saying it was "impossible" to withdraw the lawsuits since the activists had already been charged and legal investigations were already under way.
		Hun Sen began defamation proceedings against them -- and several other people who have since fled the country to avoid arrest -- after they allegedly accused him of ceding Cambodian land to Vietnam.
		Hun Sen said Monday that to get around the court's decision he has proposed that the lawsuits be deferred, citing a Cambodian law allowing such action for up to three years.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2006/01/30/cambodian_pm_reverses_position_on_lawsuits (527 words)

	Pravda.RU Down with Hun Sen?
		Hun Sen and Prince Rinarit (they both were the prime ministers of the Cambodian kingdom at that time) asked the UN in June of 1997 for assistance in the organization of the trial on Khmer Rouge leaders.
		Hun Sen was born in August of 1952 to a family of peasants.
		Hun Sen's triumph as the architecture of the peace in 1991 seemed to have doomed him to vanishing from the political scene.
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2002/03/27/27208.html (3509 words)

	AP Top Headlines - Cambodia's Hun Sen Leads Party to Victory
		But when he was 19, Hun Sen responded to a call to arms from King Norodom Sihanouk, then a prince in exile in Beijing after being ousted in a 1970 U.S.-backed coup.
		Hun Sen joined the sole organized opposition to the coup-makers, the previously marginal communist Khmer Rouge, who had allied themselves with the ousted Sihanouk.
		Hun Sen's international legitimacy was largely restored when he allowed Ranariddh to return to run in 1998 elections.
	www.thirdage.com /news/ap/top/20030728.3f26128b.c50.3.html (950 words)

	Pravda.RU:Cambodia: Monarchy in question as Hun Sen sweeps to victory (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the run-up to the general elections of 2003, Prime Minister Hun Sen tightens his grip of his country's politics and earns for the first time the status of a popular leader, after years of being classified by the international community as using strong-arm tactics.
		Hun Sen's victory in the general election of 1996 after forcing a power-sharing scheme with the opposition under threat of secession, and the subsequent ousting of the leader of the Royalist Funcinpec Party, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, the following year, raised eyebrows among the international community.
		Hun Sen had been beset with a civil war against the Khmer Rouge, which was finally ended in 1996.
	newsfromrussia.com /main/2002/02/08/26293_.html (456 words)

	Hun Sen forces hunt down political rivals (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ho Sok is one of five top royalists who Hun Sen has said must be arrested, even as he has appealed to other members of the party to work with him.
		Hun Sen's tasks now are to co-opt as many of Ranariddh's party as possible; to legitimize his rule by proceeding with long-scheduled elections; to put down armed resistance, and to persuade foreign governments to recognize his control and continue foreign aid.
		Thus Tuesday, Hun Sen intensified his efforts to persuade Ranariddh's supporters to continue working with him in a reconstituted coalition and accelerated plans for what is likely to be a tightly controlled election next year.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/97/07/09/cambodia-unrest.2-0.html (909 words)

	Hun Sen vows to remain Cambodian premier - Sept. 01, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Since the poll, Hun Sen has been attempting to forge a coalition, but both the opposition Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) and the royalist FUNCINPEC, which was the junior member in the outgoing coalition, have rejected his overtures.
		Hun Sen described the calls for him to resign after his election victory as "strange" and said that he was determined to stay on as leader in a new five-year term.
		Hun Sen said his rivals wanted to depose him by using the constitution and military action as tools, but that they would fail.
	www.inq7.net /wnw/2003/sep/01/wnw_3-1.htm (429 words)

	Hun Sen on Political, Economic Situation in Cambodia
		Samdech Hun Sen added that the only thing he asks from foreigners is that they should respect the decisions of the Cambodian people and the legitimate government.
		At the conference, Samdech Hun Sen also spoke about results achieved by the government in the implementation of reforms, such as macroeconomic stabilization, GDP growth, and the suppression of logging-related corrupt practices.
		Samdech Hun Sen added that we are not able to resolve every problem in just over one year, but we have already achieved a lot.
	www.cambodianonline.net /articles200204.htm (644 words)

	No red carpet (Site not responding. Last check: )
		PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Hun Sen rejected an appeal Tuesday to welcome the return of King Norodom Sihanouk to his troubled country by declaring a cease-fire in the latest outbreak of civil war.
		Hun Sen's regime had a quick retort: The only one way to stop the fighting is Ranariddh's unconditional surrender.
		Hun Sen and Ranariddh were enemies during the 1980s.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/082797/nored.htm (469 words)

	PM - Cambodian democracy
		Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has had a stranglehold on the top job and has so since 1985, is promising "a free and fair" poll and a series of reforms have given foreign observers reason to believe him.
		Metaphorically speaking, it was a perfect snapshot of how Hun Sen has run the country for the last 18 years, commanding the driver's seat and pushing aside anyone who gets in his way.
		HUN SEN (translated): I think compared to the election of 1993 and 98, this one will be even better.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/content/2003/s889157.htm (741 words)

	Cambodia's Killers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hun Sen then had several leading human rights advocates arrested and detained including Kem Sokha, the president of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights and his deputy, the director of the Community Legal Education Center, and the president of the Cambodian teachers’ association.
		Hun Sen is a creation of Hanoi’s leaders, who installed him to power after Vietnam’s 1978 invasion of Cambodia in an attempt to colonize that country.
		Hun Sen owes all this to Hanoi, and he is a master of playing the donors, one against the others.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1596704/posts (1933 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Hun Sen pledges to retain power in Cambodia, lashes out at rivals
		Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party surged to victory but fell short of the two-thirds parliamentary majority needed to govern outright, according to unofficial results.
		Hun Sen's position sets the scene for a showdown of the kind that occurred after the last election in 1998, when bargaining over the formation of a new government took four months and led to violent anti-government demonstrations.
		Hun Sen's party has governed since being put in power by the Vietnamese army, which ousted the Khmer Rouge in 1979.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20030730-0721-cambodia-elections.html (475 words)

	Hun Sen: Cambodia's Corruption Culture
		A former cadre of the infamous legion, the Khmer Rouge, Hun Sen fled Cambodia to the nearby communist county, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, in order to avoid the political purging of Pol Pot.
		Hun Sen gained re-entry into Cambodia when on Christmas in 1978, Vietnam invaded Cambodia and drove back the Khmer Rouge to the borders of Thailand.
		In addition to this, Hun Sen buys the allegiance of politicians who are about to voluntarily leave their parties.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~nmakerle/PE1_HUNSEN.html (588 words)

	Asia Times - News and analysis from throughout Southeast Asia
		Following the new government's swearing-in ceremony on Friday, Hun Sen indicated that the coalition produced by a year of intrigue, melodrama, back-stabbing, alleged bribery and trade-offs was not as haphazard as many observers suggested.
		Analysts say Hun Sen insisted on this measure to ensure that his coalition partner, the Funcinpec Party, as well as all members of his own party, would have to support him as prime minister if they wanted a government.
		The power-sharing deal between Hun Sen and the Funcinpec Party led to the creation of an additional 180 ministerial positions, including five additional deputy prime ministers and scores of new secretaries of state in each of the country's 27 ministries.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/FG20Ae01.html (1243 words)

	AllRefer.com - Hun Sen (Southeast Asia History, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hun Sen[hoon sen] Pronunciation Key, 1952–, Cambodian political leader, premier of Cambodia (1985–93, 1998–; second premier, 1993–98).
		In 1985, Hun Sen became premier and soon was the most powerful member of the Cambodian government.
		In 1997, after a period of tension in the coalition, Hun Sen's forces moved against Ranariddh and his allies, and Ranariddh fled the country.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/HunSen.html (262 words)

	Cambodge Soir, quotidien d'information francophone au Cambodge
		Hun Sen a prévenu Sam Rainsy qu'en campant sur ses positions d'opposant, il le resterait "à vie", à l'instar de Le Pen en France.
		Hun Sen règle ses comptes avec Sam Rainsy.
		Hun Sen a par ailleurs répliqueé aux critiques émanant traditionnellement du PSR en temps de campagne électorale, notamment aux accusations d’achat de votes par le PPC en procédant à de larges distributions de dons.
	www.cambodgesoir.info /content.php?itemid=21150&p= (900 words)

	Asia Times
		Hun Sen first met the father of the nation, who had gained independence from French colonial rulers, in 1987.
		Opposition newspapers accused Hun Sen of masterminding a coup that ousted co-prime minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh in 1997, resulting in two days of fighting in the capital between rival army factions.
		The caricature of Hun Sen as a power-hungry and corrupt dictator suspected of killing political opponents is the dominant perception in the US media and some Cambodian opposition circles.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/DK20Ae01.html (1285 words)

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