Cambodian trade unions urge garment workers not to join opposition’s mass protest next week
A Cambodian trade unions leader on Saturday called on garment workers not to participate in the opposition party-planned mass demonstration next week against the results of July’s election that handed victory to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling party. “I would like to appeal to all workers in the garment industry to keep calm and do not engage in the opposition-planned protest next week,” Som Aun, president of the National Union Alliance Chamber of Cambodia, told reporters. “Distancing yourselves from the upcoming protest would contribute to helping the Cambodian government in maintaining peace, security and public order,” he said. Garment industry, the kingdom’s largest income maker, employs some 510,600 workers in about 500 factories. The opposition Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) on Wednesday requested to the City Hall to hold a three-day protest from Oct. 23 with 20,000 to 50,000 participants at the capital’s Freedom Park. … He [CNRP’s lawmaker-elect Ho Vann] said on Oct. 23, the first day of the protest, which will coincide with the anniversary of the signing of the 1991 Paris Peace Accord, protestors will march to the UN office to submit a petition, and on Oct. 24 and 25, they will march to the embassies of France, Japan, the United States, China, Indonesia, the United Kingdom and Australia.
Nzweek News Staff
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