New and small Khmer Power Party to build border homes

The newly legal Khmer Power Party is delaying the construction of its headquarters, instead using the money to build houses near the Vietnamese border, its leader said yesterday.

Sourn Serey Ratha, who returned from self-imposed exile last month after being pardoned of widely decried convictions related to his political activities, said he decided to postpone the construction of the party’s headquarters because the “priority for now is to build houses for the poor Khmer people who struggle to live at [the] border line.”

Serey Ratha said that the nationalist KPP was aiming to build 100 houses in border areas he claims are currently populated by “illegal Vietnamese” migrants.

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