General conditions in Cambodia 1995-2015

Abstract

The issue of journalism is an important topic that was proposed by the government in late 1994 and approved in 1995 because this law came as a result of political developments in Cambodia, as journalists and human rights organizations expressed their concern that a broad mandate of the law would allow the government to control freedom of expression.

At the beginning of 1997, the political and military situation in Cambodia raised some hope because the coalition government was able to withstand more than three years of its existence, but tensions returned again due to the lack of agreement between Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh and Vice Chairman of the People's Action Party Hun Sen, as tensions extended. Between them until the end of 1997, when armed clashes broke out between forces loyal to each of them in different provinces of the country, but Prince Ranariddh moved to build a new political front to run in the 1998 elections under the name (United National Front), which led to Hun Sen responding to the prince’s proposal in order to build an alliance. political between them.

Therefore, the year 1999 was the beginning and a turning point in Cambodian politics, as the main political parties began to work together in the newly formed coalition government, and donors resumed aid programs that had been suspended after the 1997 coup, as Cambodia gained acceptance into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and the government took steps An important task for the court of former Khmer Rouge leaders. After that, the government approved the Municipal Law of 2001, which was signed in March of the same year to become legal. Despite all the government measures to modernize the country, Cambodia’s foreign relations with the countries of the world became tense in 2003 due to the refusal to The government tried the Khmer Rouge accused by the International Court of Justice and preferred to try them according to Cambodian law. What worried Cambodia most was its western borders with Thailand and its eastern borders with Vietnam, and this is what happened in 2015 because these tensions reflect the internal politics of the Cambodian government.