For practically 40 years, the identical household has led Cambodia with out a lot menace to its rule. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet was sworn in final 12 months, taking on from his father Hun Sen, who was in energy from 1985 to 2023.
Hun Sen received one other five-year time period as prime minister in elections final July, however he shortly handed over the premiership to his son. Nonetheless, 71-year-old Hun Sen stays a political pressure because the president of Cambodia’s Senate.
Supporters of Hun Sen’s very long time in energy contend he led Cambodia into fashionable occasions after the Cambodian genocide beneath the Khmer Rouge from 1975–1979, throughout which practically 25% of the nation’s inhabitants perished.
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