EU passes resolution supporting Rainsy - Hoofdinhoud

Met dank overgenomen van J.C. (Hans) van Baalen i, gepubliceerd op vrijdag 27 november 2015, 17:39.

Cambodia National Rescue Party officials yesterday fanned out across the country to call for calm amongst grassroots members, as the European Parliament passed a resolution demanding the government revoke a two-year prison term levelled against opposition leader Sam Rainsy, who remains abroad.

Photo: Cambodia National Rescue Party leader Sam Rainsy shakes hands with Hans van Baalen, a member of the European Parliament for the Netherlands, yesterday in France at the European Parliament building

Splitting into three teams, the lawmakers visited several provinces as part of a four-day national tour to discuss the party’s strategy after a tumultuous month.

Since October 26 - when two opposition lawmakers were bashed outside the National Assembly by men who emerged from a pro-Cambodian People’s Party rally - the CNRP has seen its leader, Sam Rainsy, booted from parliament and slapped with an arrest warrant, and his deputy Kem Sokha ousted as the assembly’s first vice president.