CNRP to boycott National Assembly over lack of safety

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Meas Sokchea

Cambodia National Rescue Party leaders yesterday vowed to boycott the National Assembly unless their members’ safety can be guaranteed following the bashing of two opposition lawmakers outside parliament during a pro-CPP rally last week.

After returning to Cambodia on Tuesday night, CNRP president Sam Rainsy, who had been in Europe, and vice president Kem Sokha, who had visited the injured lawmakers in Thailand, spent yesterday meeting with representatives of three foreign embassies in the capital to discuss the crisis.

According to CNRP spokesman Ou Chanrith, the pair told diplomats, who included the Japanese and British ambassadors and the US charge d’affaires, that the CNRP’s 55 lawmakers would not attend parliamentary sessions until their protection was ensured.

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