They don’t budge…
-They don’t budge: Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha held a press conference at the opposition CNRP headquarters, requesting the same justice for the people who have been cheated from their voice as before the formation of the new government. They will not settle for less than an independent investigation in the 2013 election frauds before even thinking of occupying the 55 seats they gained at parliament, and threaten with a nationwide general strike if their demands are not met.
-They don’t budge: at their last appeal at the Supreme Court, Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun still claim their innocence in the assassination of union leader Chea Vichea in 2004. They were sentenced to 20 years after a series of what many observers consider as farcical judicial procedures. The final verdict is due any time…
UPDATE: I will not have to photograph Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun in prisoner’s clothes again: their sentence was suspended by the Supreme Court. They spent nearly ten years in prison for nothing. But then… ‘Who Killed Chea Vichea’? There is already a movie about that by Bradley Cox… The Khmer version can be seen HERE.
