The prejudices against Vietnamese are rooted in history, he explains. For hundreds of years the two countries have shared a common history full of wars, immigration and invasion. Most of the time, Cambodia got the shorter end of the stick. A touchy issue is also Prime Minister Hun Sen. The former member of the Khmer Rouge, Cambodias radical communists who brutally murdered between 1.7 and 2.2 million of their countrymen, fled to Vietnam to escape the wrath of his own party cohorts. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen Hun Sen is seen by many as a minion of Vietnamese interests in Cambodia. When Vietnam invaded Cambodia in 1978 to put an end to the Khmer Rouge regime, it installed Hun Sen, first as deputy prime minister and foreign minister, and then later, in 1985, appointed him prime minister . Cambodians frequently ignore the fact, Golzio explains, that the Vietnamese toppled a terror regime and, in doing so, allowed life in Cambodia to more or less return to normal. But that hasnt stopped Rainsy and his Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) from spewing invective against the yuon, whom he notes, have been in Cambodia for 400 years. They are good for nothing. And the current leadership is a lackey of the yuon, who can still do whatever they want, Rainsy has said. dw.de/cambodias-opposition-leader-plays-racist-card/a-17477112
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