“Police Quash Veng Sreng Memorial Ceremony”
Riot police and municipal security guards shunted a group of would-be mourners around Phnom Penh’s southern industrial precinct…as they attempted to mark the second anniversary of the day military police marched along Veng Sreng Boulevard firing assault rifles into crowds of rioting garment workers.
Two years after at least five young men were killed by state forces, ending a two-day riot, a few dozen monks, rights defenders and family and friends of the victims turned out to light incense and pray for their souls. However—warned by City Hall a day earlier that congregations on Veng Sreng would not be tolerated—they were met with heavy-handed tactics that have become a trademark of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government…
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