Time Out For The CNRP, Not For The Others…
The CNRP, in its bid to have Prime Minister Hun Sen step down after 28 years in power and the July 2013 elections the CNRP claims to have won, has put a temporary halt to the daily marches through Phnom Penh it held with tens of thousand of supporters for the last 15 days. But the unions, in their struggle to have a wage rise of 80$, keep on demonstrating in front of the Ministry of Labour. The negotiations there failed in absence of representatives of the factory owners, and some 4000 workers decided to march to the Council of Ministers where they were blocked in a standoff with the riot police which lasted for 4 hours. On the Eastern side of Russian boulevard, a smaller crowd was equally blocked by riot police from making a junction with the factory workers.
The other 2013 elections photographs are HERE.
An e-book for the iPad about the garment sector in Cambodia, called ‘A Fine Thread’ will be released soon in the ‘Mono’ collection published by ‘4Rivers’. See HERE.
