Originally Posted by
JDiver
It is a "coalition" government that includes major elements of the KR, and is very authoritatian and corrupt. If "democratically elected" means that the UN and the USA declined to establish sanctions against the Khmer Rouge and allowed them to form a goverment, it's certainly "democratic." I did mean "authoritarian," however; thanks, Mario.
There's not much of a coalition in the government these days - the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) has consolidated its power pretty effectively. FUNCINPEC, while still technically the junior coalition partner, has been in almost total disarray for months, and my sense is that they're not doing much governing. Many FUNCINPEC-affiliated senior officials have been removed from their positions over the last year and replaced by CPP loyalists.
That said, the voting and vote-counting in the last parliamentary elections was generally considered to be carried out legitimately, with the CPP winning a majority (though not the super-majority required to form a government by itself). Of course, there were many, many critics who observed that the real violations of the electoral process (intimidation, vote-buying, rigging of the voter lists, etc.) happened long before election day.
Originally Posted by
JDiver
It looks like the "trials" to try the butchers are in jeopardy again...
Sadly, this is true.
Notwithstanding all the above, and to get this thread back on track: I think RKA may be defunct (as has been the case with so many Cambodian airlines over the past several years); if not bankrupt, they are certainly keeping a very low profile - I haven't heard anything about RKA or seen any advertising, etc., in a long time. Which means that the OP's chance of succeeding against the airline is slim at best.
IIRC, RKA was privately owned, and was not a state-owned airline (Cambodia hasn't had one of those since the demise of Royal Air Cambodge, in 2001 I think); but I'm sure some of the owners were very well-connected.
- Michael