Keo Remy, president of the Cambodia Human Rights Committee (CHRC), an affiliate of the current Cambodian government, told reporters on Monday in a press conference that Prime Minister Hun Sen deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, due to his "Win-Win" policy to end a long lasting civil war in the country, and his participation in liberating Cambodian people from the genocide committed by the Khmer Rouge regime.
"It's time to give him [Prime Minister Hun Sen] the Nobel Peace Prize, or a prize for human rights. But, regarding these two points, he was rather being slandered and charged even he is the man with huge merit," said Mr. Remy.
He added that people had to be clear about the national reconciliation that is playing a crucial role for the development/evolution of the human rights in the kingdom. Without this national reconciliation, nothing could happen.
After the 1991 peace accords were signed, the first free election was organized by the U.N. in 1993 in Cambodia. Nevertheless, the former Khmer Rouge rebels refused to participated in the election. As a result, the civil war still continued to happen in the western part of the country.
To completely end the civil war, in 1996, Prime Minister Hun Sen secretly negotiated with the former Khmer Rouge leaders to setup a plan, the so-called "Win-Win" policy by which the premier has promised to allow the former Khmer Rouge rebels to keep controlling their territory.
In exchange, the premier asked them to only live in accordance with the new liberal democratic rules that were just setup by the U.N.. As the support from China was just ended at that time, former Khmer Rouge leaders accepted the deal.
In consequence, from that time on, all Cambodian people from all walk of life can enjoy living in peace until today. And the "Win-Win" policy proposed by Prime Minister Hun Sen is considered by many countries around the world.
Each year, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awards the Nobel Peace Prize "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses," wrote Alfred Nobel in his last will.
According to online sources, as of 2016, among 104 activists awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, four of them were from communist countries such as Lê Đức Thọ from Vietnam, Andrei Sakharov and Mikhail Gorbachev from former Soviet Union, and Liu Xiaobo from China.
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