Stay updated with breaking news from Luon sovath. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Meta rejects request to suspend Facebook account of Hun Sen, Cambodia's ruler washingtonpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Activist Monks Flee CambodiaFearing Arrest, Defrocking cambodiantimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cambodiantimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
English By Sun Narin Share on Facebook Print this page PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA - Last summer, prominent Cambodian activist monk Bor Bet participated in protests triggered by the arrest of labor leader Rong Chhun. Now the monk has fled to Thailand with other Cambodian dissidents, vowing to return home. Like many Cambodian Buddhist monks, Bor Bet has embraced activism, working with a loose coalition of movements bedeviling the increasingly authoritarian government of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen. Advocates for democracy, labor unions, human rights and the environment, they participate in each other’s demonstrations. When authorities arrested Rong Chhun, a veteran human rights defender, July 31 and charged him with “incitement to cause social unrest,” he was pursuing the case of farmers in Tbong Khmum, a province on the Vietnam border, whose land had been seized as part of the official demarcati ....