Hun Sen mocks opposition's prayers for rights

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Meas Sokchea

Prayer won’t help you.

That was the message delivered yesterday by Prime Minister Hun Sen to the opposition, who on Sunday held a religious ceremony in Siem Reap to pray for their lawmakers’ parliamentary immunity to be respected, amid what’s widely seen as a politically motivated crackdown on the Cambodia National Rescue Party and government critics.

Speaking to graduating students at the Royal School of Administration in Phnom Penh, the premier said the CNRP’s theatrics were unnecessary and unable to save its members from arrest if authorities determined they had broken the law.

“I would like to say that it is not necessary to make offerings to the spirits,” Hun Sen said. “If you don’t do anything illegal, you won’t be jailed.”

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