Khmer Times/May Titthara

I am very happy that Prime Minister Hun Sen currently granted us a new house at Koh Sla disabled and retired soldier center in Chuuk district, Kampot province,” Mr. Reth said.

Mr. Rainsy said on his Facebook page yesterday that he will return to Phnom Penh today at 7:35 pm, citing the “importance and necessity of the culture of dialogue.”

Mr. Rainsy previously described last week’s beating of two CNRP lawmakers during a pro-CPP protest in front of the National Assembly as an example of how “[Prime Minister] Hun Sen can only resort to fascist methods in order to cling on to power.”

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Rainsy Returns

Khmer Times/Cheang Sokha and Jonathan Cox

Tuesday, 03 November 2015

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Opposition leader Sam Rainsy and the recently ousted National Assembly deputy president Kem Sokha were welcomed by a jubilant crowd at Phnom Penh International Airport yesterday evening. The pair arrived after a brief stop in Bangkok to visit two fellow Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) lawmakers who had been savagely beaten by protesters outside the National Assembly last week.

Mr. Rainsy’s return to the country comes amid warnings from the ruling party that he could be imprisoned because of a post on his Facebook page. Despite the political tension, a boisterous crowd of hundreds greeted Mr. Rainsy at the gates of the airport, chanting his name and snarling traffic on Russian Blvd.

In comments during a media conference at the airport, Mr. Rainsy tried to defuse the tension between his party and the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), while at the same time pushing for justice for the two lawmakers who were attacked.

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