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Monday, September 12, 2016

CNRP Talks Mass Protests After Sokha Conviction

CNRP Talks Mass Protests After Sokha Conviction

 The Cambodia Daily | 12 Sept. 2016

Opposition leaders on Sunday called on supporters to consider mass demonstrations after the conviction on Friday of CNRP Vice President Kem Sokha, while a government spokesman warned that those who attempted to heed the call to action would pay a “very high price.”

Speaking via videolink to some 300 CNRP youth activists from Kandal province at the party’s headquarters in Phnom Penh, opposition leader Sam Rainsy asked supporters if they were ready to take to the streets to demand justice.


Opposition leader Sam Rainsy addresses CNRP youth members on Sunday via videolink during a meeting at the party’s Phnom Penh headquarters, in a photograph posted to his Facebook page.
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy addresses CNRP youth members on Sunday via videolink during a meeting at the party’s Phnom Penh headquarters, in a photograph posted to his Facebook page.

“If you consider that it is right, we must arrange mass demonstrations like 2013 and early 2014,” said Mr. Rainsy, who is living in self-imposed exile in France to avoid jail time.

“Are you ready to join a mass demonstration to demand justice for Khmer people? Do you agree?” he asked, to which the youth activists shouted “Yes!”

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