CPP calls for action over speech in France

The Cambodian People’s Party has demanded authorities take action against two more CNRP figures, including a lawmaker, over a speech in France that referred to the ruling party regime as a “beast” and “puppets of Vietnam”.

Sending yet another chill down the spines of government opponents and critics, the letter by the CPP singled out French-based activist Ly Poeung and lawmaker for Prey Veng province Tout Khoeut. It demands action against the two men, but acknowledges that Khoeut was simply in attendance at an event in Lyon, France, on February 25, where Poeung made remarks the party characterised as “defamatory”.

Poeung’s speech, it says, was a “public insult” levelled at “the government led by the CPP and its leaders” aimed at “inciting to cause discrimination, hatred between Khmer and Khmer”, which caused “serious chaos to social security” and “threatened peace in Cambodia”.

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