August 20, 2025
BANGKOK – Acting Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai said on Tuesday that academics may submit a proposal to the government to consider suing Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet and his father, Hun Sen, in the International Criminal Court (ICC) as war criminals.
Phumtham said that if academics have such a proposal, they may officially submit it to him and he would ask the government’s legal experts to review it.
He was speaking about the National Security Council’s (NSC) resolution to file both criminal and civil lawsuits against Hun Manet and Hun Sen in Thai courts for causing deaths and injuries to Thais, as well as damaging assets, by ordering Cambodian troops to fire at Thai civilians.
Phumtham said the NSC reached this resolution during its meeting on Monday.
He added that the legal divisions of the NSC, the Foreign Ministry and the armed forces would jointly consider whether lawsuits could also be filed against the Cambodian father-and-son leaders in the ICC.
When a reporter told him that some academics believed lawsuits could be filed against Hun Sen and Hun Manet in the ICC, Phumtham replied: “Let them submit the proposal to me officially, and I’ll have the legal division consider it.”