Cambodia's Prime Minister and president of the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) Hun Sen (L) greets boy scouts during a CPP ceremony marking the 37th anniversary of the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime in Phnom Penh on January 7, 2016. Up to two million people were executed or died of starvation or overwork as the 1975-1979 Khmer Rouge regime tried to create an agrarian utopia. AFP PHOTO / TANG CHHIN SOTHY
PHNOM PENH: Looking more avuncular than authoritarian, Cambodian premier Hun Sen crouches for a selfie for his Facebook page with young scouts – part of a social media blitz selling the strongman’s cuddlier side as he seeks to extend a 30-year grip on power.
The 63-year-old, a wily political survivor who defected from the Khmer Rouge to oversee Cambodia’s rise from the ashes of war, has vowed to remain prime minister until he is 74.
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