Will Cambodia’s new leader be able to step out of his father’s shadow?

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Hun Sen, Cambodia’s authoritarian leader who has ruled the country for almost four decades, has handed power to his son, Hun Manet, in a historic transfer of power Under Hun Sen’s rule, opposition figures were jailed or forced to flee the country, and independent media shuttered. The question now is whether this generational shift will bring any change. Manet, the eldest of Hun Sen’s children, was born in 1977, during the brutal rule of the Khmer Rouge, which is estimated to have killed 2 million Cambodians. Hun Sen was originally a Khmer Rouge commander but defected to Vietnam and went...