The ruling Cambodian People’s Party blasted former opposition leader Sam
Rainsy and the court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) for
taking political advantage of the government’s lockdown measures to curb
COVID-19 and inciting people to disobey the authority’s instruction. The
Phnom Penh Municipal Court has charged former opposition leader Sam Rainsy
with obstructing lockdown measures and inciting social chaos and issued a
warrant for his arrest, according to Ministry of Justice spokesman Kim
Santepheap. The charges were levied against him after he called on people
in Phnom Penh and adjacent Takmao town in Kandal province to ignore all
government lockdown orders and leave their homes and go about their daily
business as normal.
Unknown assailants attacked the teenaged autistic son of a jailed member of
the Cambodia National Rescue Party with a brick, leaving him with a
fractured skull, in the latest of several assaults on people connected to
the country’s opposition party over the past year.
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Some leaders of political parties rapped former opposition leader Sam
Rainsy for attempting to create social chaos and unrest by inciting people
to disobey the authority’s instructions on Phnom Penh’s lockdown.
