Sam Rainsy, president of the CNRP (Cambodian National Rescue Party) opposition party, returned to Cambodia after having attended his daughter’s wedding in the U.S.A. during a stalemate with the ruling CPP about the July 28th parliamentary elections results. He was greeted by an unexpected large crowd upon his arrival at Pochentong Airport.
Civil Society groups and NGO’s staged a gathering for a peacefull resolution of the political stalemate after the 2013 Cambodian elections with a rather confused coordination. One group showed up in front of the Royal Palace, while the other was demonstrating at Wat Phnom. Ubiquity is not human.
While the final results of the parliamentary elections were announced, Boeung Kak Lake (see here and here) and sympathizing communities returned to current affairs and staged a demonstration requesting the release of Yorm Bopha in front of the Supreme Court. Relying on their very long experience regarding demonstrations, they invested in umbrellas, sheltering them from […]
Even before the complaints on voting procedures were examined, the NEC (National Election Committee) announced virtually unchanged final results of the July 28th elections for the parliamentary elections, giving 68 seats to the CPP and 55 to the CNRP. The remaining CNRP leaders (CNRP’s President, Sam Rainsy, in a strange move, is in the U.S. […]
The opposition CNRP (Cambodia National Rescue Party) staged a rally at ‘Freedom Park’ in the aftermath of the contested results of the July 28th parliamentary elections. CNRP President Sam Rainsy and Co-President Kem Sokha (see also here) addressed a crowd of some 3000 to 4000 supporters. The word ‘yuon’ was pronounced quite a few times. […]
Sam Rainsy, President of the opposition coalition CNRP (Cambodian National Rescue Party) visited the Boeung Kak Lake community (see here and here). Having spent a few years in self-imposed exile to avoid a jail sentence for having uprooted a border post, Sam Rainsy was, with Prime Minister Hun Sen’s blessing, pardoned by King Sihamoni and […]
The flight is over and the jetlag persists. I hate the travelling part to be somewhere else. Somewhere else is home now. Back in Phnom Penh, time to catch up with what’s up…
A last visit to the Atomium, the place where I took my first photographs in 1958 with a Kodak Brownie given to me by my father, and I’m flying back to Phnom Penh today, trying to catch up with post-elections developments there. More on Belgium at these links: here, here, and here. And more recently […]