‘Coup’ call renewed from Canada

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A former soldier living in Canada who last month called on the armed forces to turn against the government renewed that call in a video posted yesterday, warning the government that it had 30 days to release jailed opposition members and rights workers or face the wrath of the armed forces.

 

Som Sovanara – a member of the dissident Khmer National Liberation Front, which bills itself as non-violent, but has been labelled a terrorist organisation by the prime minister – received asylum in Canada after fleeing Cambodia in 2013.

 

In the video, Sovanara repeats his call to the armed forces to “be ready to go against the authoritarian leadership of the CPP, Hun Sen and Yuon communists”, using a word for the Vietnamese considered derogatory by many.

 

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