Politicos bizarro
December 13, 2007
This whole Yash Ghai-Human Rights Day thing just keeps spiraling down the bizarro Cambodian abyss. It started on Monday, Human Rights Day, when the UN’s special envoy for human rights, Yash Ghai, released a report calling Hun Sen a murderous dictatorous thug questioning the government’s commitment to protecting human rights (pdf report here).
Mature and statesmanlike, Hun Sen responded by calling Yash Ghai a stupid tourist. He blasted the UN for its previous support of the Khmer Rouge. He demanded the UN replace Yash and he vowed to never, ever talk to Yash again. Then he blasted the UN some more for its current stance on Burma, accusing the world body of putting the kibosh on Burma’s proud march to democracy.
No really, he did.
Previous to the prime ministers recent remarks on his daughter’s gold-digging girlfriend, it’s been quite literally months since some astute Cambodian politician has said something earth-shatteringly stupid. Nature abhors a vacuum. The country was due.
