No talks amid violence: Sokha
Avoiding a reprisal of the roadblocks and counter-protests that forced the cancellation of planned opposition events in recent days, Cambodia National Rescue Party vice president Kem Sokha gave a speech calling for peace and stability to hundreds of supporters at the party’s Kampong Thom province headquarters yesterday.
In his remarks – given around the time authorities were violently dispersing a group of demonstrators in Phnom Penh – Sokha reiterated his party’s willingness to negotiate with the ruling Cambodian People’s Party, but not before the government stopped interfering with opposition gatherings and discontinued its use of violence to quell protests. …
May Titthara and Stuart White
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