i hope the opposite. i'd love to see the people rise up and start hanging the money grubbing elite in freedom park. it was depressing in phnom penh before the election seeing hung sen posters on every shopfront. outside of phnom penh it was sam rainsy posters everywhere.

My point was that I hope these protests don't end with 80+ protesters being killed and parts of the city burnt to the ground.

I think Hun Sen is basically a mobster and Sam Rainsy might be an improvement, but the best thing that can happen for a nation is developing a precedent for a peaceful transition of power. Secure a foothold in parliament, then get strong international monitoring for the new election so you don't end up with two parties claiming victory. No one really knows who won that election. The whole country is corrupt, including any citizens who will vote for someone handing them dollar bills.

Or we could try your idea. They could start with the rich people, then move onto the teachers, and why not just hang anyone wearing glasses to be on the safe side.

and what site do you get your political poster info from trolol?

violence and intimidation is the only language the money grubbing cambodian elite understand. hun sen threatened civil war if he lost.

Without wishing to turn this into the politics thread my belief was that CPP ( Hun Sen current government ) lose in the cities and win in the countryside were many people vote for who ever their village chief tells them to vote for having spoken to many Khmers about this from the countryside i would say this is true. Also a lot of people in PP vote CRNP ( Sam Rainsy ) as they have better education / use facebook etc and see through the governments nonsense.

its called a heart

virtually every single shopfront in phnom penh had a poster up for hun sen.

Can't we just bash the heads of our opponents' children against tree trunks like in the goold old days?

I'm going to Cambodia for 9 days now, was planning to spend some time in the city centres. Is it enough to walk away when I see the police or should I avoid any specific areas completely? Think my PP hostel is very close to those barbed wire pics :/

Yeah I am aware that is the name for that specific shape but what do you call those things hearts/ smilies whatever. I am old and not down with you crazy kids.

Emoticons

if your stayting where the hostels are and bar areas you are fine. cambodia is a safe place, unless your looking for action but defi nitely lot safer then it was 5 yrs ago.

The protests are scheduled to be over tomorrow. They're only happening in PP as far as I know. It sounds like today was fine, but I'd go to Siem Reap for a couple days first just because most of the touristy sites in PP are in the areas involved.

since ive moved to cambodia i have noticed a lot of stuff breaking overnight :S first it was my laptop keyboard, i woke up one day and a load of keys randomly stopped working (1,3,q,t,u,p,j)... then i started to use another keyboard and a few days later some of those keys also stopped working (8,9,shift)...

ive had a USB phone charger and a normal phone charger both break overnight, my brothers monitor stopped working overnight, im sure there are a few more things but i cant think right now... is this normal? :S

today i woke up with 2 new problems on my laptop... 1. when i type, the cursor randomly decides to go back to the start... and 2. when i am scrolling down a page, for whatever reason it will randomly jump back to the top of the page... both are really starting to tilt me. any ideas on fixing this?

Maybe the electricity is ****ed up in your house. I had the same trouble in an apartment i rented in Thailand, a lot of my stuff just stopped working.

yeah thats what we thought.. its really wierd... the 2 problem i said before are fine now but i got a load of new problems when i use USB keyboard ... when i press b - it opens the calculator, when i press f - it opens windows find thing, when i press g - it opens my computer and when i press 9v it automatically types a 9 with it :S

might be your plug converters?

Humidity maybe

Ghosts probably

I plug all my electrics that I care about into a regulator that keeps my power supply at 220v ( think its called a regulator not 100% sure ) also if your house is relatively near the ocean stuff can corrode quickly.My friend lives beach side and is on his 4th MacBook in 5 years..

Yeah or ghosts obviously.

But only when the moon is angry.

how much do one of these 'regulators' cost?

got my hair cut today for $1.25... couldnt ****ing believ9e it

That mop on your head couldn't have looked much worse tbf...

Kidding... yeah where did you get that done?