US senator wants military aid tied to election probe
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has scored a late political victory in his whirlwind two-week tour to Europe and the United States to try and ramp up international pressure on the newly formed Cambodian government ahead of his return Tuesday. Last Wednesday, a prominent Republican Party senator, Lindsey Graham, submitted a resolution to the US Senate calling for military assistance to the Kingdom to be suspended until a credible investigation into election irregularities is mounted and the government commits itself to electoral reform. The resolution references the Cambodia National Rescue Party’s boycott of the National Assembly due to unaddressed election irregularities that the CNRP claims cost it additional parliamentary seats. …
Kevin Ponniah
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