But these Khmer Rouge people now in power in Phnom Penh, when they heard the word revolution they thought I was calling for a similar kind of revolution to theirs. In the message the day before yesterday from the National Assembly, they accused me of sedition. They do not understand the real meaning of my message. We know what Cambodia is like. The level of vitriol in politics and the things people say about each other is really very exceptional - worse than almost anywhere.
Attacks are very personal.
I think that Buddhism and democracy imply tolerance, freedom of speech, freedom of opinion. Without starting any religious war or pushing for any political revolution, we have to accept other people's views. I am not obliged to accept their presentation. If you challenge their conception of society and politics, then they say you are a threat to national unity or to peace and order and stability. That is dictatorship.