Selected excerpts of the impromptu speech by Prime Minister Samdech Thipadei Hun Manet over the “inauguration of the school building and achievements at the Hun Sen High School of Pramaoy” [Unofficial selections and translations]

(1) Patriotism depends on concrete actions for peace, development and protection of the land This area used to be a place of war. We just had it reunified and integrated to the fold of the nation in 1997. We have made efforts to transform this place from a desert, a battlefield, with landmines, to a…