Prime Minister Appeals for CPP Votes as He Distributes Aid
During his ongoing visit to western provinces to meet people affected by flooding, Prime Minister Hun Sen appealed to people to vote for the CPP to protect the country’s peace.
During his ongoing visit to western provinces to meet people affected by flooding, Prime Minister Hun Sen appealed to people to vote for the CPP to protect the country’s peace.
Prime Minister Hun Sen said he had evidence on his phone to dissolve an opposition party — but had decided against it so far — as he continued his weeklong denouncement of opposition leader Sam Rainsy.
Hun Sen said he would visit the flooded provinces around the Tonle Sap lake starting Friday, and focused his speech on criticism that he was electioneering by doing so.
Prime Minister Hun Sen said Khmer Rouge officials — some of whom have been convicted of genocide — were easy to have a meal with, something that he would never do with exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy.
The politician brother of murdered populist commentator Kem Ley and several opposition defectors — including from the Candlelight and Cambodia National Love parties — have been made government advisers by royal decree.
Police investigations into plotting charges against former CNRP members, including Mu Sochua, relied mostly on their public Facebook posts and interviews with pro-opposition media Radio Free Asia.
Judges in the Kem Sokha treason trial have agreed to a two-month break before finally heading into closing arguments in the already-prolonged trial against the former CNRP president.
Exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for a meeting he had with an indigenous minority leader in 2013 pledging to uphold the rights of Cambodia’s indigenous people.
The National Assembly will not meet with four opposition parties who want to initiate reforms at the National Election Committee to address allegations of irregularities in the conduct of the June commune election.
A land activist from Tbong Khmum province was allegedly beaten in Phnom Penh on Sunday while attending a seminar in the capital.
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