Sokha blasts ‘dictatorial’ leaders

Less than two weeks after 11 opposition activists were handed lengthy prison sentences for their role in an attempted “insurrection” in July 2014, Cambodia National Rescue Party deputy Kem Sokha took aim at the ruling party in a pointed, yet veiled, speech to a gathering of supporters yesterday.

Speaking to a crowd of people in Kampong Speu’s Thpong district, Sokha delivered an ad hoc state of the Kingdom address.

Without direct mention of the ruling Cambodia People’s Party or the jail sentences that have been slammed by both local and international civil society organisations, Sokha stated that as long as rights continued to be violated, land continued to be grabbed and forest continued to be destroyed, Cambodia could not claim to be on a progressive political path.

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