CNRP rally today?
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CNRP rally today?
Just got a heads up that there will be a CNRP rally today at 1030, and some roads closed due to protests. Anyone know more info and where?
https://kh.usembassy.gov/security-messa ... hnom-penh/The United States Embassy in Phnom Penh alerts U.S. citizens residing in or traveling to Cambodia of the possibility of political demonstrations in Phnom Penh on Monday, September 5. The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) has announced planned demonstrations at or around CNRP Headquarters, located at 576 National Road 2, as well as at or around the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, located on Samdech Monireth Blvd. Additional demonstrations may occur throughout Phnom Penh through the week of September 5, including in the areas surrounding CNRP headquarters and the Phnom Penh Municipal Court.
CNRP lawmakers will this morning push forward with plans to deliver letters to the embassies of signatories of the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements informing them about the deteriorating political climate, they said on Sunday, despite the event being banned.
The opposition on Friday announced the plans for a number of its lawmakers to travel in cars to deliver the letters to diplomatic missions around Phnom Penh, but City Hall spokesman Mean Chanyada said on Sunday that they did not give adequate notice.
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/desp ... es-117571/However, CNRP officials said they would not back down from the plans.
“We are just going in 15 cars,” said Mu Sochua, the CNRP’s head of public affairs, adding: “People will surely follow us, either by foot or moto, we don’t know.”
She said that given the government’s warnings against the event, the U.S. Embassy was right to put out the warning.
Lawmaker Son Chhay said there was nothing illegal about lawmakers traveling in a group of cars to deliver letters to embassies.
“We think that submitting letters is not against the law, so some of our lawmakers will bring letters to submit at the embassies,” Mr. Chhay said.
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However, on Friday, Phnom Penh Municipal Governor Pa Socheatvong said the CNRP was indefinitely banned from marching in the capital or delivering petitions, even if it requests permission from Phnom Penh City Hall, adding that Phnom Penh does not belong to the CNRP.
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/c ... -citys-ban“We have made it very clear what is in jeopardy, which is democracy and human rights,” said Sochua, a lawmaker for Battambang province, who plans to take part in delivering the petitions. “The goal of the CPP [Cambodian People’s Party] to destroy the CNRP is very clear. They don’t want Cambodia to move forward into a democracy.”
Phnom Penh Deputy Governor Khuong Sreng yesterday reiterated the ban on marching, but would not elaborate on the reasons, or on plans to stop the CNRP if party officials deliver the petition by car.
“We will not allow the CNRP to march,” Sreng said. “But I will not tell journalists how we plan to stop them.”
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CamNews just tweeted these, I don't recognize the area:
Traffic police road block, maybe the one starkmonster is stuck in:
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Traffic police road block, maybe the one starkmonster is stuck in:
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I was on the way with my son, when a police officer gestured for me to pull down the window. He then told me to do a U-turn because roads were blocked with the CNRP thingy.
Killing time now at a café.
Killing time now at a café.
Despite roadblocks the petition has arrived safely at the Australian embassy.
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Probably not. I don't know how popular it is among diplomats that their convoy drives around causing traffic blocks around them either.Miguelito wrote:But they weren't allowed inside?
The whole thing just seems unnecessary to me. Surely the Embassies read local news and already got the message that way?
They should deliver their petition to the North Korean embassy.
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I remember a few months ago there were about 50 people who showed up to the U.S. embassy on a Sunday to deliver a petition. I heard the guards were slightly confused, then politely accepted it (no embassy staff were there, of course), and then the people were on their way. Didn't make much sense to me.
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