CNRP Lawmaker Slammed for Khmer Krom Speech

Son Soubert, chairman of the permanent committee of the Son Sann Foundation, demanded that opposition lawmaker Eng Chhai Eang apologize to the the Khmer Krom community for a post he made last month on Facebook about a historic community leader.

In a statement, Mr. Soubert said that a video posted on Facebook on December 19 showed the CNRP lawmaker, who is also the chairman of the National Assembly’s first commission, giving a speech in Montreal, Canada, where he compared Khmer Krom community hero Son Kuy, who is also Mr. Soubert’s great-grandfather, to self-exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy.

Mr. Kuy was beheaded in 1841 during a battle with the Vietnamese for the Kampuchea Krom area, and Mr. Chhai Eang said this was similar to that of Mr. Rainsy, who is in self-imposed exile in France as he fights a number of defamation charges.

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