One year later, Rainsy's ‘escape’ remains divisive

A year ago today, opposition leader Sam Rainsy turned his back on a promise to return to Cambodia and face down a two-year prison sentence for defamation revealed while he was abroad.

Few had believed the former investment banker would make good on the promise, and many of those who did would still have had trouble feigning surprise when he announced the decision to again go into exile mere hours before his flight was scheduled to land.

At least publicly, officials from the Cambodia National Rescue Party – a precarious coalition he established in July 2012 with his onetime rival and now-deputy leader Kem Sokha – for months said they supported his choice to again flee abroad. Then, in October, that suddenly changed.

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