Talk:Politics of Cambodia

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I am interested in religious and political freedom. I would like to be able to use the Wikipedia as a reference to research the type and degree of these freedoms in the various countries of the world.

I hope that KQ, Geronimo and others who are forming a consensus on the article format (or template) will accomodate my research goals.

However, I'm not sure the Cambodia article is suitable for my needs at this point. I want to find out when the Communist dictatorship, which murdered around 2 million of its own country's civilians, came into power. If it went out of power, I would like to know when and how that happened. Is it safe for Christians to visit as tourists? as missionaries?

Another related question is the designation of the form of goverment. Many countries have the phrase democratic republic in their name. Is there any correlation between that phrase and the country's actual form of government? Two decades ago, I was of the opinion that "democratic republic" was usually synonymous with "Communist dictatorship". What I need from the Wikipedia is clear and accurate information on each "democratic republic" country, so that I can test my hypothesis. Please remember that I am not advocating a POV about this issue; rather, I am looking for data against which to check my hypothesis.

Thanks for reading this long rant. What are the committee's plans in regards to this matter? --Ed Poor

[edit] On behalf of the Rest of the World

Don't mean to be contraversial here, but why on Earth does this article detail the diplomatic representation between Cambodia and the USA? I would like to point out that there are other countries - in the interests of neutrality, either all of them or none of them should be listed - ThievingGypsy 19:24, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC), London, The 51st State.

I believe the main reason why this article has diplomatic representation between the USA and Cambodia is because the information from this article was taken directly from a United States government data source: the CIA World Factbook. I suppose the original authors of this Wikipedia article didn't believe it was necessary to edit it out. - Aoi 06 Dec 2004

[edit] Proposed Rewrite

I'm proposing a major rewrite to this article so it's no longer just one long list. Please see User:Aoi/Politics_of_Cambodia_rewrite (link removed) for the proposal. Please make any suggestions to help improve the proposal, as this is the first time I've written a politics article for Wikipedia. Otherwise, I'm planning to post it here at the end of the week. Thank you! - Aoi

- Rewrite posted - Aoi

[edit] Errors?

I just want to point out that the National Assembly has 123 members. Right now it is written with 122, does this exclude the president? If not then it should be 123.