A young woman activist with the banned Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) has been attacked by an unknown assailant, bringing to 16 the number targeted since mid-2019 and prompting condemnation from the opposition Tuesday over what they allege is a campaign of intimidation by authorities.
Eang Maryna said a male suspect wearing a helmet with a face mask to conceal his identity beat her, leaving her unconscious with a severe head wound, after she left her home on Monday to buy food in what she described as a normally quiet neighborhood in the capital Phnom Penh.
“First, he hit me with a rock causing me to black out and then he hit me a second time,” she told RFA’s Khmer Service as she recovered on Tuesday.
In full: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/assault-05122020170917.html
