Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much for your testimony here today.
I want to quote at the outset a BBC report that was written just a few months ago. It says, “Rapid economic growth over the past decade [has] transformed [the capital] but left the rest of the country behind, and made Hun Sen and his close associates obscenely rich.”
A hallmark of any authoritarian state is corruption, but I want to understand specifically how corruption manifests itself in Cambodia and the extent to which it explains the seeming stranglehold that Hun Sen has had over the country since 1985.