CNRP calls on UN to join investigation

The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party has called on the United Nations to join an investigation into the beating of two CNRP parliamentarians last Monday, expressing serious doubts the Cambodian People’s Party-led government could conduct an independent inquiry into an incident it was almost immediately accused of orchestrating.

On October 26, CNRP lawmakers Nhay Chamroeun and Kong Sakphea were brutally beaten as they left a parliamentary session by men who had joined a pro-CPP demonstration calling for CNRP deputy president Kem Sokha to step down.

Although the CNRP quickly called the attack a “reprisal” from the CPP, the ruling party denied any ties to the incident and Prime Minister Hun Sen vowed to investigate the matter in a televised address on Wednesday.

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