history histrionics

Government spokesman Khieu Kanharith defended the arrests and said the government is only protecting itself in its actions against critics of the secret border deal. Citing the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan by US forces during WW2, Hun Sen said an offensive is sometimes the best form of self defense. He also said he would continue to broadcast a controversial song from Lon Nol’s era that accuses retired God-King Norodom Sinhanouk of ceding land to Vietnam. “I’ll have it produced into karaoke,” Hun Sen said, “Don’t be afraid of history.”