Students Protest At UN Envoy’s University Lecture
U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi on Tuesday received a thorny reception from hundreds of students at a Phnom Penh university, who angrily questioned his impartiality and unfurled banners calling for him to end his work in Cambodia.
News of the Opposition Met With Media Blackout
Scanning the contents of Tuesday’s leading Khmer-language newspapers and news websites, one would have little idea that at least 3,000 opposition party supporters marched through the streets in one of the largest demonstrations of its kind, holding placards demanding electoral reform, or that opposition leader Kem Sokha challenged Prime Minister Hun Sen to a TV debate ahead of the July election, or that U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi was in town.
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