Cambodia’s influential former leader Hun Sen on Tuesday called for a new law to label anyone who attempts to topple his son’s government as “terrorists”, as the country marked the anniversary of the ousting of the Khmer Rouge.
The ultra-Maoist Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, installed a reign of terror in 1975 that left two million Cambodians dead from starvation, hard labour, torture and mass executions.
It ended on Jan 7, 1979, when Hun Sen, himself a former Khmer Rouge cadre, led Vietnamese forces into the capital to expel the murderous regime.
