Rainsy Says French Investigating Grenade Attack

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Rainsy Says French Investigating Grenade Attack

by Khuon Narim | March 31, 2016

Speaking via video-link at a ceremony on Wednesday marking the 19th anniversary of the 1997 grenade attack in Phnom Penh, self-exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy announced that a French court had re-opened an investigation into the deadly attack he has long blamed on Prime Minister HE.

Unidentified assailants lobbed four grenades into a protest being held by Mr. Rainsy near the old National Assembly in March 1997, killing at least 16 and injuring more than 120, one of the worst mass killings in the country’s modern era. No one has ever been prosecuted for the attack.

A woman pays her respects to those killed in a March 1997 grenade attack on a protest led by opposition leader Sam Rainsy during the 19th anniversary commemoration at the site in Phnom Penh on Wednesday. (Siv Channa/The Cambodia Daily)

“I remember on March 30, 1997, we gathered here to demand justice, to demand independent courts…and democracy, and now everything that we wanted we still do not have,” Mr. Rainsy said, projected via Skype on a screen at the ceremony.

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Rainsy Says French Investigating Grenade Attack

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