English.news.cn 2014-01-27 PHNOM PENH, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian security forces fired smoke bombs to disperse protesters in the capital Monday morning, national military police spokesman Kheng Tito said.
Mam Sonando, owner of the opposition-aligned Beehive radio station, defied a government ban on public gathering and led about 200 protesters to rally in front of the Ministry of Information against the ministry's rejection of his request for a relay station and a TV station.
Hundreds of security forces had been deployed to defend the ministry's building and dispersed the protesters with smoke bombs and batons since the protesters blocked a road in front of the ministry.
"They defied a ban on protests, so we have to disperse them in order to maintain social security and public order," Kheng Tito told Xinhua after the incident. "We cannot let them cause anarchy in society."
The dispersal operation lasted about 10 minutes, leaving seven protesters injured on the head and limbs, according to Am Sam Ath, a senior investigator for the rights group, Licadho, who observed the incident.
On Sunday, Cambodian security forces briefly clashed with a few hundreds of protesters near the capital's Freedom Park, which left 17 people on both sides injured. The clash broke out after nine opposition-aligned unions and associations defied the government ban on demonstrations and led the protest to demand the release of 23 protesters detained during violent clashes on Jan. 2 and 3, and a 160 U.S. dollars minimum monthly wage for garment workers.
The poll results showed that the ruling party led by Prime Minister Hun Sen won 68 parliamentary seats and the CNRP got the remaining 55 seats.
Claiming serious irregularities, the opposition refused to accept the outcome and has boycotted parliament and held protests to demand the resignation of Hun Sen and a reelection.
Hun Sen has said that he would neither step down nor call a re- vote.
The leaders of the two parties met twice in September in an attempt to narrow their political differences, but the talks failed to produce results.
Editor: Zhu Ningzhu
1 comment:
To Vietnamese posters (including Hun Sen's Vietnamese CPP supporters):
All of you are so bad! You are the most dumbest folks on earth, daring to laugh at and enjoying looking down the innocent and victimized people who are trying to fight for all of us (Khmer people) in Cambodia and in the world.
It is very painful when you said so negative against unfortunate and evicted Cambodian people. You are so evil and disgusted and even so dumb to show your stupidity.
You above are very bad CPP supporters led by Hun Sen, thinking that you are illegal Vietnamese immigrants and Vietnamese folks born in Cambodia under the criminal Hun Sen's umbrella. Also, you show the bad images of your Vietnamese folks inside Vietnam and around the world. Will you think that this is a real stereotype of your Vietnamese citizens in Vietnam and abroad that you love to show off what you have done ( by stealing, robbing, killing and cheating to take their land and property to get rich or wealthy) as your hard works and ambitions?
It is too late that the world are staring to learn about the bad intention of your Vietnamese citizens as the way you talk negatively against the innocent and simple Cambodian people who are so kind and thoughtful.
It is up to you, Vietnamese people living and being born in Cambodia (including brainwashed Cambodian folks supporting CPP) to show your brutal stereotypes. Do you know what stereotype means? And do you know your stupidity of Vietnamese citizens thinking negative and being so unfair against the neighbor (the generous, patient, and peaceful Cambodian/Khmer people)? There is something you need to think about it, Vietnamese people who currently live in Cambodia, Vietnam and abroad.
Thank you for your time to read my comment.
Khmer living in the U.S.
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