Hun Sen da gwamnatinsa sun ga cece-kuce da yawa.Hun Sen ya kasance tsohon kwamandan Khmer Rouge wanda asalin Vietnamese ne ya kafa shi kuma, bayan Vietnamese ya bar ƙasar, yana riƙe da ƙaƙƙarfan matsayinsa ta hanyar tashin hankali da zalunci idan aka ga ya cancanta.^{[101 <]} > A cikin 1997, saboda tsoron ƙara ƙarfin ikon abokin aikinsa, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Hun ya kaddamar da juyin mulki, inda ya yi amfani da sojoji wajen wanke Ranariddh da magoya bayansa.An kori Ranariddh ya tsere zuwa birnin Paris yayin da aka kama wasu masu adawa da Hun Sen, an azabtar da su wasu kuma aka kashe su.^[101]