Cambodians go to the polls early next month to elect more than 12,000 district officials | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

In 2001, Cambodian authorities forced Sar Neang and his family from their home in the center of Phnom Penh to make way for a government-backed development. That experience with Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government prompted Neang to embrace politics. He’s the current deputy chief of the Khmuonh commune in Sen Sok, a district in the capital…

Cambodians go to the polls early next month to elect more than 12,000 district officials, but the ballot is also shaping-up as a showdown between the two major parties amid threats of civil war and a crackdown on political dissent in the lead-up to national elections slated for the middle of next year. For Prime Minister…