Youth Movement Stopped
About 100 members of Suon Sophorn’s Sam Rainsy Party Youth movement (opposition) tried to march from ‘Freedom Park’ to the Royal Palace to request amnesty for those they consider condemned for political motives, among which they include Sam Rainsy, the opposition party leader living in self-imposed exile in France, but also Yorm Bopha and Tim Sakmony, the Boeung Kak Lake and Borei Keila activists. Suon Sophorn was badly injured by police forces (see here) a little more than one year ago during the destruction of several houses from Boeung Kak Lake. In a show of force before next weeks’ ASEAN summit, riot police wearing new protective gear blocked the demonstration for a couple of hours.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 8/11/2012: Suon Sophorn’s Sam Rainsy Party Youth movement carrying portraits of the late King Norodom Sihanouk before an attempt to march to the Royal Palace to deliver a request to King Sihamoni for an amnesty for all those condemned for political motives.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 8/11/2012: Suon Sophorn’s Sam Rainsy Party Youth movement blocked by police forces in its attempt to march to the Royal Palace to deliver a request for an amnesty for all those condemned for political motives.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 8/11/2012: Suon Sophorn, Head of the Sam Rainsy Party Youth movement at a demonstration wishing to march to the Royal Palace to deliver a request for an amnesty for all those condemned for political motives.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 8/11/2012: Suon Sophorn’s Sam Rainsy Party Youth movement blocked by police forces in its attempt to march to the Royal Palace to deliver a request to KIng Sihamoni for an amnesty for all those condemned for political motives.