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It was marching time again on this third day of the CNRP protest in Phnom Penh. Shuffling at a brisk pace through the overheated streets of Phnom Penh, thousands of CNRP supporters cheerfully followed Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha, co-Presidents of the oppostion CNRP, on their bid to deliver a notice to several embassies (Australia, Russia, Japan, Indonesia and China) that a petition signed by over 2 million people demanding justice for the voters having suffered irregularities during the 2013 legislative elections had been handed over to the UN Human Rights office. People along the road offered water, condensed milk or the possibility to use their toilet to the marchers. A very large number of the marchers were ‘6000 Riel-per-day people’ who were left on the sideline of Cambodia’s 7% economic growth.

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The demonstration by the opposition CNRP churns along its second day.

Representatives of various communities and faraway provinces take the front stage, finally have their 15 minutes of fame, and can tell the (CNRP) world what troubles them in their life, how hard and unjust it can be, how tough it is to make ends meet and how fed up they are with what has been done to them for the last 28 years.

Others, exhausted by the heat and the march to the various embassies in the morning, rest or chill out in the park surrounding Wat Phnom.

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The CNRP demonstrations and marches go on unhindered on this second of three days of protests against the 2013 elections results.

A petition was delivered by a huge and enthusiastic crowd headed by Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha, co-Presidents of the opposition CNRP, to the French, British and U.S.A. embassies, three countries which signed the October 23rd 1991 Paris Peace Accords promising Cambodia a pluralistic democracy.

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A crowd of probably 15,000 people, substantially superior to the one from the first 3 day protest by the opposition CNRP, headed by Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha, co-Presidents of the CNRP, marched to the UN Human Rights office to deliver a petition signed by 2 million cambodians, requesting justice for people who were cheated from their vote at the 2013 legislative elections and the implementation of the Paris Peace Accords signed on October 23rd 1991 regarding the principles of a pluralist democracy and the protection of human rights.

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The opposition CNRP has launched its 3 day demonstration at Freedom Park to protest the 2013 legislative elections results and to request the implementation of the Paris Peace Accords which were signed on October 23rd 1991.

A religious ceremony was held in the early morning.

A press conference was held by Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha at 9:00AM at the CNRP HQ.

The trucks from the provinces arrive fairly unhindered in Phnom Penh and unload their cargo of CNRP supporters amidst the deafening noise of the sound system.

The party will go on for three days…

As opposed to the previous 3 day protest, there is not one police barricade with barbed wire blocking the streets.

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The Boeung Kak lake community, caught in a seemingly endless land issue since 2007, held its 34th demonstration for the year 2013. Well, that is the 34th I took photographs of… I did miss a few protests in those last 10 months. And that is also without counting the numerous ‘guest appearances’ during protests held by the Borei Keila community or during elections related demonstrations.

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More on Boeung Kak lake HERE and HERE

This is a follow-up post on the ‘Quest for Land‘ story which is available as an iApp on iTunes and which reports on land issues in Cambodia since the year 2000, with texts by Robert Carmichael and over 700 photographs.

Ahead of a planned 3-day mass demonstration of the opposition CNRP, the cambodian riot police held a demonstration of force at Freedom Park, the area usually assigned by the authorities for demonstrations. This left the Grassroots People’s School of Democracy no alternative but to organise their event with discussions about the cambodian constitution and their personal experience thereof in a park nearby, under the watchfull eye of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi.

Meanwhile, many of the police forces being very busy rehearsing their moves in crowd control at Freedom Park, the workers of the SL Garment factory, caught in a labour conflict with their direction for several weeks (see HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE) had not too much difficulty reaching Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house near Independence Monument.

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A simple memorial by a small youth group and monks to honour the memory of Mao Sok Chan who was fatally shot by the police in the aftermath of the opposition CNRP demonstration of September 15th turned quite nasty as nervous security guards from the municipality intervened several times to confiscate joss sticks and lotus flowers, destroyed a wreath, disrupted an ongoing prayer ceremony and confiscated the portrait of the deceased. Finally the prayer took place at the more peacefull area in front of the American embassy.

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