Protest to include marches: Rainsy

Marches through the capital will take place as part of the Cambodia National Rescue Party’s days-long sit-in, scheduled to begin on Sunday, opposition leader Sam Rainsy said. “We will march through Phnom Penh.… We will stay [at Freedom Park] day and night,” Rainsy told thousands of vendors and onlookers during a public speech at the O’Russey Market in the capital’s Prampi Makara district. The opposition leader’s announcement came as a government spokesman said a force of 60,000 people, many of them police and military police, had worked on election security since campaigning began in June. The CNRP announced on Monday it would stage another mass demonstration in the form of a peaceful sit-in for at least three days at Freedom Park, where thousands gathered to protest against “vote-rigging” last Saturday. According to final results released on Sunday, the ruling Cambodian People’s Party won the July 28 election, earning 68 seats compared to the opposition’s 55. Rainsy, who said again yesterday that his party would boycott parliament later this month if election irregularities are not addressed, did not provide planned march routes and times. …

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