Civil rights and civil liberties in Cambodia are totally dead. Any protest will be crushed by the so-called “third hand” of Mr. Hun Sen. He calls it the “third hand”, which actually means the militia, which means the hired security guards. We have gone through so much.
If they can physically assault a member of Parliament in front of the parliament building, they can do anything they want. Also, I need to say that the members of Mr. Hun Sen's bodyguards got a very short prison sentence. After that, they were promoted in the security force.
Our people want protests, but they are waiting for the opposition, the CNRP, to say when. We don't want to have protests just to have protests. We want peaceful resolutions. At the end of the day, though, we may not be able to ask the people to wait. The people will go out in the streets. That will be chaos, and that's the chaos Cambodia cannot afford to have.