1/12 Cambodia and the EU now face decisive choices and a moment of truth. Having committed many reprehensible acts in the course of his long rule, Hun Sen is seeking at any price to ensure the impunity that only power can guarantee. #SamRainsy #Cambodia 
2/12 As he grows older, Hun Sen aims to conserve this power within his family and is preparing one of his sons, Hun Manet, to succeed him.
3/12 Increasingly guided by fear, Hun Sen seems determined to realise his plan to hold and pass on power as he wishes, regardless of the views of the Cambodian people and the international community.
4/12 Hun Sen correctly identifies the democratic opposition, united under the banner of the CNRP, as the principle threat to his regime.
5/12 Therefore, he seeks to kill the CNRP by any means, notably by putting pressure on Kem Sokha – who is today still in the position of a hostage – to try to make him break his alliance with Sam Rainsy, so leading to a fatal division of the democratic opposition.
6/12 The rehabilitation of the CNRP and all its leaders cannot, logically, pose a problem: it must automatically follow from the rehabilitation of Kem Sokha himself once his innocence is recognised. A virtuous cycle of rehabilitation must replace the vicious cycle of repression.
7/12 This will lead to the moment of truth. Hun Sen will finally have to demonstrate logic and good faith. The truth is that Hun Sen is trapped by his own hand, because cynicism has its limits.
8/12 The accusation of "treason" against Kem Sokha, which is at the origin of the repressive measures taken by Hun Sen since 2017, is in the process of falling apart.
Hun Sen must himself recognise that there is no serious evidence to support this accusation
Hun Sen must himself recognise that there is no serious evidence to support this accusation
9/12 A judge under the orders of the executive has just declared that the Kem Sokha investigation has ended.
10/12 Hun Sen must therefore absolve Kem Sokha and lift all restrictions on his rights and liberties, so fully rehabilitating him, or very quickly organise a judicial farce to condemn Kem Sokha for an imaginary crime, which would be unacceptable to the EU.
11/12 Even if a conviction of Kem Sokha were to be followed by a royal pardon, such a personal arrangement would not re-establish democracy or the rule of law.
12/12 This will also be the moment of truth for the EU, which will have to demonstrate whether or not it respects the norms of truth, justice and democracy, which form part of the set of values which it presents to the whole world. #SamRainsy #Cambodia
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