Cambodia made two important choices on its national trajectory considering the recent sentencing of Kem Sokha to 27 years of house arrest on charges of treason and conspiracy with a foreign power.
First, it made clear that Cambodia chose peaceful democratization in its consistent endeavor to build a multiparty liberal democracy as enshrined in its constitution.
Some may observe the sentence as the end of democracy. But looking at Cambodia’s history of nation-building, the event was just a point of time in which Cambodia confirmed its self-determination on what kind of democracy it intends to build.
In full: https://asiatimes.com/2023/03/cambodia-makes-its-own-way-in-kem-sokha-case/
