SRP Campaign Videos Put Focus on Evictions
While the CPP in Phnom Penh has spent much of the campaign period broadcasting speeches by Prime Minister Hun Sen, hosting music concerts and sending well-known comedians into the streets to work the crowds, the SRP has a starker campaign focus. When the sun sets, 10 trucks make their way around the city’s streets showing a video on makeshift screens hung haphazardly over the bed of trucks depicting clip after clip of villagers and authorities clashing in some of the highest profile land disputes. Judging by the crowds that gather at each viewing, the strategy seems to be a hit. Shop-owners duck out of their stores and motorcycle taxi drivers…
