RCAF chief claims, without evidence, that dissolved CNRP is preparing for war

Mech Dara and Andrew Nachemson |

The commander-in-chief of Cambodia’s armed forces yesterday levelled a bold, seemingly baseless accusation at the now-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party, claiming it was planning to “prepare armed forces” along the border to wage war against the government.

The CNRP was dissolved and 118 of its members banned from politics in November for allegedly attempting to foment a foreign-backed “colour revolution”, an accusation that has been decried by the international community as a fabricated pretence for the ruling party to clear the electoral field of its only viable challenger.

“The 118 members still have the idea that they will prepare armed forces along the Cambodia-Thailand border as in the civil war era,” Pol Saroeun claimed at the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces’ year-end review.

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