Perhaps the most important sign came this morning when the powerful security apparatus expressed support.
The majority of public spending went on the security apparatus.
"We did not want the whole security apparatus there."
"The moment the security apparatus of the country crumbles, the people will rise up."
There is little faith that the national security apparatus can handle the task.
Rather, it is which parts of the vast security apparatus will survive at all, or should, and in what form.
With outside help, the Cambodians should be able to build a security apparatus.
The country would have the least secretive policy since the birth of the modern national security apparatus in 1947.
"And of course, their arrests show the Chinese security apparatus keeps very close eyes on these people."
The security apparatus which had failed the dead President still operated, and everyone knew it.