CPP MPs visit injured opposition colleagues in Bangkok

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Meas Sokchea

A delegation of ruling party lawmakers travelled to Bangkok over the weekend to visit two opposition parliamentarians hospitalised there after being beaten outside of the National Assembly, a gesture one of the wounded lawmakers likened to a man slapping a child then patting it on the back.

Speaking by phone yesterday, the injured Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmakers Kong Sakphea and Nhay Chamroeun said they were pleased by the visit from their Cambodian People’s Party counterparts, but Chamroeun insisted yesterday that it was not enough to undo his conviction that the ruling party orchestrated the attacks.

“When both of us are in tears, is not because we’re excited about the delegation bringing a small gift to give us … [it] is because we’re thinking of the very cruel event when the perpetrators beat us,” Sakphea said.

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