On 12 April 2016, relating to the arrest of Um Sam An, member of the National Assembly who is posting on his Facebook page that the Royal Government uses falsified Cambodian border maps, Samdech Techo Hun Sen warns immediate arrest of anyone who would go on talking about the falsified maps story. “I just reaffirm on two points – firstly, as long as the National Assembly has not amended or removed the Article 2 of the Constitution, which authorizes use of 1/100,000 scale maps printed by the Indochinese Geography Group, and whoever talks about falsified maps, the Royal Government will have him/her arrested. Secondly, as long as the Supplementary Agreement between Cambodia and Vietnam ratified by the National Assembly and signed by HM the King is still in force, whoever talks about falsified maps, the Royal Government will have him/her arrested. We will do this no matter what the person may be – a member of the National Assembly or the Senate. It would be an act of instigation in flagrante delicto. It would lead to national disaster …,” Samdech Techo said.
Meeting with handicapped soldiers in the 317 Kulen Handicap Soldiers Development Centre, Samdech Techo announced his decision to provide scholarships for children of handicapped veterans from 317 Kulen centre in Siem Reap, Ta Ken Koh Sla in Kompot, 317 Phnom Chat in Banteay Meanjei, to continue their studies to graduate degrees after they pass their senior secondary school exam. He also advised them, as he did to handicapped soldiers and their families in Ta Ken Koh Sla, not to practice gambling because it would bring about conflict, households violence and loss of property. Once again, Samdech Techo reiterated efforts to narrow the gap of pension between those who went into retirement while the salary was low and those who did later “… I have instructed the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the Ministry of Public Functions to narrow the gap of pension between those who went into retirement at the time of low salary and those of you at the time of high salary. We will narrow the gap gradually every year. This is not the case only for handicapped soldiers but also for Royal Government’s civil servants.”