Cambodian Australians ask government not to recognise Cambodia’s ‘sham’ election

On a Melbourne winter’s day, dozens gather around a crudely-made cardboard coffin, the words “Hun Sen killed democracy in Cambodia” on the side. A cutout of the country’s strongman prime minister’s face is affixed to a dummy. One protester uses his shoe to smack it — a sign of his contempt for the man who has had a grip on the South-East Asian nation for 38 years. Cambodia heads to the polls tomorrow but the protesters know there is no possibility of a change of government. They are calling on Australia not to recognise the “sham election” in which the…