CPP top leader vows to protect the national assembly and government
Heng Neang
Cambodia News and New Youth
Phnom Penh (7 Jan, 2014): Top Cambodian ruling party leader on Tuesday publicly said that his party would do everything to protect the government and the parliament and accused the opposition party of provoking the national insecurity and public disorder.
Speaking in his prepared speech at a gathering with some 40,000 participants to mark the 35-year anniversary of 7 January (1979-2014), Heng Samrin, Honorable President of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and Parliament President, said CPP would not allow anyone to destroy the achievements made to CPP for 35 years and it strongly protects the government led by Prime Minister Hun Sen and the parliament led by himself.
In his remarks lived on all 12 national TV channels, Heng Samrin said that CPP would never let anyone destroy its history of 7 January saying that the Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) has proved the country’s unrest through the recently organising a series of protests demanding PM Hun Sen to leave from position and to reorganize the national election.
CPP has ruled the country since January 1979 when it liberated the country with support from tens of thousands of Vietnamese troops from the 1975-79 Khmer Rouge genocidal regime of Pol Pot that caused about 2 million people died of killing, torture, overwork, starvation and diseases.
However, CNRP leaders and supporters consider the 7 January 1979 as the day when Vietnam invaded Cambodia and installed a communist regime in the country led by Hun Sen, Heng Samrin and Chea Sim.
In the national election on 28 July, 2013, The National Election Committee (NEC) officially announced that CPP won 68 and CNRP got 55 out of 123 seats at the national assembly. CNRP, however, has denied the results claiming that the results were fraud and cheated by both NEC and CPP. It says CNRP wins at least 62 seats and then it has led a series of protests against the results.
Last week, 4 young garment workers were gunned down and nearly 20 others were wounded during clashes between thousands of garments workers and Prime Minister Hun Sen’s authorities. The number of death tool was up to at least 6 and scores of people were injured during the protests since the election on 28 July.
