Alleged attackers at Capitol protest to sue

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Lay Samean

The president of a tuk-tuk and motodop drivers’ association, whose members were recorded on video brutally beating protesting bus drivers over the weekend, said he would file complaints against prominent union and civil society leaders for sparking the violence his own group was accused of instigating. E Sophors, president of the Cambodia for Confederation Development Association, claimed yesterday that he had his own video evidence showing that innocent CCDA tuk-tuk drivers were in fact beaten up by protesters, rather than the drivers beating protesters with sticks, metal rods and hammers, as publicly available videos show.

“We did not hit any [bus] drivers, and we have prepared a video clip showing the violent brawl as evidence,” he said, while declining to make the clip available to reporters. On Saturday morning, about 50 former Capitol Bus Company drivers and their union supporters demonstrated against Capitol for allegedly firing 45 bus drivers for trying to start a union.

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