After nearly four decades in charge, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has announced he is stepping down
One of the world's longest ruling leaders, Hun Sen made the announcement days after his Cambodian People's Party won 120 of 125 parliamentary seats in a general election from which all serious opponents were banished.
Opposition politicians, most of them in self-exile, and rights groups say Hun Sen has for years suppressed democratic institutions while party colleagues and relatives have benefited from a range of business concessions. He entered an uneasy coalition with his royalist rivals only to oust them in a bloody takeover in 1997.
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