Treason Trial of Cambodian Opposition Supporters Gets Underway

  • Luke Hunt

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For more than a year, the Cambodian government has been rounding up supporters of the banned Cambodian National Rescue Party and charging them with treason. Amid tight security and chaotic scenes, 129 of them appeared Thursday before the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, although their trials have now been put off until early next year. With David Potter contributing, Luke Hunt reports from Phnom Penh. VOA Khmer's Sisovann Pin narrates in Khmer.