KUALA LUMPUR: Cambodia’s self-exiled opposition veteran Sam Rainsy said on Sunday he would help organise protests against authoritarian ruler Hun Sen to build on growing international pressure for change in his home country. “His supporters have lost their confidence and trust in him since things have never happened as he has repeatedly vowed,” Koy Kuong said, adding that no outside influences had affected the case of Kem Sokha. The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, founded by Kem Sokha and Sam Rainsy, was banned in 2017 ahead of elections last year that western countries dismissed as farcical. “Internal pressure and external pressure will combine with the end result of making Hun Sen backtrack, of making Hun Sen withdraw all the repressive measures,” Rainsy said. Rainsy called for all charges to be dropped against Kem Sokha and for the party to be reinstated.

Source: New Strait Times November 11, 2019 03:09 UTC