Army did not move to stop CNRP: Tea Banh

10 June 2014
The Phnom Penh Post
Government / Human rights / Ministries and other national bodies / Social development
Cambodia National Rescue Party / Cambodian People's Party / CNRP / CPP / Hun Sen / Kem Sokha / Kun Kim / National Assembly / Sam Rainsy / Tea Banh

The opposition yesterday accused a senior army general of having ordered plainclothes soldiers to block the party from entering the former Khmer Rouge stronghold of Anlong Veng on Sunday, where they were set to hold a public forum. But Defence Minister Tea Banh strongly rejected the accusations. Hong Sok Hour, an opposition senator from the northwest, said Anlong Veng residents had informed the opposition that General Kun Kim, a deputy commander-in-chief of RCAF and a chief adviser to Prime Minister Hun Sen, had ordered his soldiers to block the Cambodia National Rescue Party. …

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