In Siem Reap, Rainsy Again Calls for Hun Sen to Step Down

SIEM REAP CITY – Opposition leader Sam Rainsy was greeted Tuesday by 15,000 supporters and a small dust storm at the CNRP’s first post-election rally in Siem Reap, where he once again called on Prime Minister Hun Sen to stand down. Arriving on a scheduled flight from Phnom Penh, where he had also led a march in the morning, Mr. Rainsy descended on the small Angkor Kyung Yu Park in Siem Reap’s outskirts to raucous cheers just before 4 p.m. Accompanied not by his deputy, Kem Sokha, but by his wife, Tioulong Saumura, Mr. Rainsy took to the stage apologizing for the CNRP vice president’s unexplained absence but praising the high turnout at the park. … Continuing a theme ever present at opposition rallies, Mr. Rainsy turned his focus to Vietnamese encroachment and immigration to Cambodia. “Many yuon and foreigners come to take jobs from Khmer people and to take Cambodia territory,” he said to cheers, using a term for Vietnamese people often consider pejorative. “They urge Khmer go to Thailand instead,” he said. “Many go and they are happy, and then they bring yuon in to replace Khmer—so we vote for change!” The opposition leader then called on Mr. Hun Sen to either stand down or call a new election, citing recent events in Thailand as a possible example to follow. “I appeal to Prime Minister Hun Sen; I ask one thing: Mr. Hun Sen, don’t be weaker than a female,” he said. …

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