D5760453-FFAC-4851-8E4D-CA8C58C065D2_w1023_r1_s — FILE: A village chief in Chi Kraeng district, Siem Reap province, is sitting watching the voters and a list of electors in hand for marking who voted or did not vote on July 29, 2019. (Thida Win/VOA Khmer)

Cambodians Speak of Threats, Intimidation During Election

“It is villagers’ rights to go to vote or not vote,” said one woman describing pressure from ruling party officials to vote.

August 7, 2018

by VOA Cambodia

SIEM REAP PROVINCE — Although Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s Party won a landslide victory in the recent general election, there is growing affirmation that in the weeks leading up to the vote local authorities carried out surveillance of suspected opposition supporters.

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