Cambodian dictator Hun Sen was doing damage control today after a tweet from his account seemed to relish the failure of Thailand’s Pita Limjaroenrat to become prime minister.
The former Khmer Rouge soldier who has ruled Cambodia with an iron fist for 25 years said today in a new message that he was not being critical of the Move Forward Party leader in the now-deleted tweet which said that Pita’s loss in the parliament was a failure for “the brute opposition in Cambodia,” aka those opposed to his authoritarian rule.
ល្ងាចម្សិលម៉ិញខ្ញុំបានបង្ហោះសារមួយដែលមានន័យថា ការដែលលោក Pita មិនបានជាប់ឆ្នោតជានាយករដ្ឋមន្ត្រីថៃ…
