Ethnic-Vietnamese Cambodians Prevented From Voting in Kandal
SA’ANG DISTRICT, Kandal province – Liv Yang Bin, 66, has voted four times, but on Sunday he could not make it a fifth.
Three times on Sunday, Mr. Yang Bin went to his local polling station at a school here in Kandal province, but each time he was met by some 500 local people, who drove him away with their anti-Vietnamese chants. …
Out of the 50 Vietnamese families in Troeuy Sla commune, Mr. Yang Bin said only 15 people in the commune had the right to vote. And like Mr. Yang Bin, most could not vote Sunday, though most have lived as fishermen in Cambodia for several generations. …
The scenes here Sunday came after the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party campaigned heavily on an anti-Vietnamese platform for the national election, stating that the ruling CPP are mere puppets of the country’s eastern neighbor and that too many Vietnamese nationals are entering the country to do jobs that Cambodians can do themselves. …
Denise Hruby and Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/ethnic-vietnamese-cambodians-prevented-from-voting-in-kandal-37225/
