Friday 4 March 2011

HUN SEN President of Cambodia



Hun Sen is the president of Cambodia.He was born in April 4,1951.He had a lot of experience.He was one of the key leaders of "Cambodian People's Party"(CPP), which has governed Cambodia since the Vietnamese-backed overthrow of the "Khmer Rouge"in 1979.He was a former "Khmer Rouge"who escaped to Vietnam before 1979 in order to call for the Vietnamese to overthrow the Khmer Rouge government .Since the restoration of multi-party democracy in 1993 , the CPP has been in a coalition with the royalist" Funcinpec Party"

His current ,full honorary title is "Samdach Akkak Moha Sena Padey Dekjo Hun Sen ".The title "samdach ''was attached to his name in 1993 by King Norodom Sihanouk . it is only an honorary title and does not give him further powers. He has a glass eye , the reason of a wound sustained during the Khmer Rouge offensive against Phnom Penh in April 1979. Hun Sen is currently the longest serving leader in South East Asia and is one of the longest serving prime ministers in the world ,has been in power through various coalition since 1985.

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