Hun Sen warned Human Rights Watch

By Khmerization
Source: DAP News


Prime Minister Hun Sen (pictured) has strongly and angrily reacted to the New York-based Human Rights Watch for releasing a statement attacking the Cambodian government for its lack of efforts to fight human trafficking and drug trafficking, especially human rights abuses against drug addicts, reports Deum Ampil.

Human Rights Watch issued a 93-page report, "Skin on the Cable," on January 25, 2010, with reports of widespread beatings, whippings, and electric shock to detainees, including children and individuals with mental disabilities, in seven Cambodian drug detention centers.

Speaking at the Ministry of Interior on 17th March during a ministerial meeting on government's 2009 efforts to combat drug trafficking, Prime Minister Hun Sen bitterly attacked the HRW report as "unwise and thoughtless" that failed to mention the good efforts made by the Cambodian government.

Mr. Hun Sen admitted that Cambodia's efforts in combating drug trafficking are not perfect, but it is not as bad as made to be seen by the HRW report, he said.