Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Rigged election: Cambodia has dropped all democratic pretensions and become a one-party autocracy. Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s Party claimed total victory in this week’s general election, announcing it had won all 125 seats in Parliament. International observers said the vote was neither free nor fair. Ahead of the election, the government jailed opposition leaders, barred the main opposition party from running, and shuttered independent media outlets. Factory and agricultural workers were ordered to vote and told they should not return to work without an inked finger indicating they had done so. Hun Sen, a 65-yearold former Khmer Rouge commander, has ruled Cambodia for nearly 33 years.