Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen is Southeast Asia's longest-serving elected leader. He recently warned there could be civil war if his ruling Cambodian People's Party lost national elections scheduled for mid-next year. "If war happens, let it be," he told a gathering of army veterans in early May.
Cambodia is one of Southeast Asia's remarkable re-makes -- bouncing back from decades of war and the horror of Khmer Rouge mass murder that killed close to 2 million people in 1975-79, and emerging as a notional democracy by the end of the 1990s.
