PM slams CNRP ‘incitement’

Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday that the government would not allow the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party to use garment workers as “political hostages” in a strongly worded rebuke of what he painted as a conspiratorial relationship between the CNRP and a number of trade unions to incite protest. “The opposition party and its trade union [allies] have been exercising political demagogy by using workers as their political pedal [and] inciting workers to illegally strike and demonstrate for an [unrealistic] minimum wage as part of their aim to pollute the investment environment, destroy workers’ benefits and job opportunities for youth,” the premier said in a speech at the 17th Government-Private Sector Forum. … CNRP spokesman Yim Sovann yesterday strongly denied accusations that the CNRP had incited workers to strike and protest. “The workers had organised demonstrations on their own; they cannot live with a very small salary, so they stand up to demand for a decent income for a decent living. We had nothing to do with that,” he said. …

 Vong Sokheng and Kevin Ponniah
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