Cambodia’s top opposition party leader threatened to be gunned down with 7 bullets

Phnom Penh (6 December, 2013): Cambodia’s opposition Cambodian National Rescued Party (CNRP) Deputy President Kem Sokha have been threatened through Facebook to be gunned down with 7 pistol bullets on Friday and the information has been shared from one to another. Cambodia News could not make clarification with such controversial information.

The man who is identified as Phé Vannak (ផែ វណ្ណៈ) on facebook was quoted as saying that he would shoot Kem Sokha with 7 bullets: the first bullet in the left arm, the second bullet in the right arm, the third bullet in the left leg, the forth bullet in the right leg, the fifth bullet in the belly, the sixth bullet in the heart and the seventh one in the head.

CNRP is in the 7 number in rank among 8 political parties run during the 28 July national elections and the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) of Prime Minister Hun Sen is in number 4. The National Election committee (NEC) claimed that CNRP won 55 and CPP won 68 seats out of 123 seats of the National Assembly during the national election on 28 July.

So far, the CNRP has rejected the results saying that its party claiming the poll was fraud with many irregularities. It says CNRP won up to 63 and that the results were stolen and alleged NEC as the thief who helped steal the election results for CPP. Since then, it has never joined the parliament, providing CPP to lead the national assembly alone.

CNRP in late November publicly declared that it would hold a series of peaceful protests every weekend in Phnom Penh and other provinces from mid December 2013 until its request is reached. By Cambodia News and New Youth