Parties offer conflicting narratives of protest clash

Senior CPP lawmaker Chheang Vun on Friday denounced eight arrested CNRP officials as anarchists and said that Tuesday’s violent clash at Freedom Park was worse than riots in January in which military police shot dead at least five protesting garment factory workers. Speaking at a press conference at the National Assembly, Mr. Vun said that opposition protesters had come to Freedom Park with rice sacks full of wooden clubs and a premeditated plan to beat the notoriously violent Daun Penh district security guards. ...

Kuch Naren and Matt Blomberg
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