Boeng Kak Protesters Deny Role as SRP Activists
On Friday morning, five Boeng Kak land dispute activists marched into the Sras Chak commune office in Phnom Penh and demanded that their names be removed from a registration list of election monitors working for the Sam Rainsy Party. The activists said they had been listed as volunteer monitors for the SRP without their consent, a move they said was designed to frame them as members of the opposition party and politicize their protest against eviction from the Boeng Kak area. Multiple reports published in local newspapers this week brandished the Boeng Kak protesters as opposition party members and cited anonymous Phnom Penh municipal officials accusing the four women, and one man, of inciting violence during their protests in the name of the SRP. The five activists said on Friday that they have nothing to do with the SRP and are supporting 58 families who have been left out of a plan devised by Prime Minister Hun Sen in August…
