Military Helicopters Fly Over CNRP's Phnom Penh Head Office

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My bad....
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John Bingham wrote:
Luigi wrote:Looks like a Bell 429 Global Ranger. About $6-7 mil. A flight v maintenance time of 1:1 could be a problem. I can't imagine a Khmer
rotor wing A&P tech. Scary!
They are Chinese Harbin Z-9s.

"The Chinese-made Harbin Z-9 helicopters left after it began raining at about 4 p.m." :D
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Sorry, didn't see that. Makes more sense than a US made helo.
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have a mlilitary parade juz to threaten the opposition?

sounds about right

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Military Deployment Was Flood-Relief Exercise, Official Says

BY BEN SOKHEAN | SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Defense Ministry spokesman Chhum Sucheat said on Thursday that military helicopters, boats with machine guns and trucks of armed and masked troops were deployed around the opposition CNRP’s headquarters on Wednesday for a flood-relief exercise.

For more than three months, Deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha has been avoiding arrest by hiding out in the headquarters, which lies between the Bassac River and National Road 2 in Meanchey district.

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Soldiers carry out what the Defense Ministry described as a training exercise on boats behind the CNRP’s headquarters in Phnom Penh on Wednesday. (Siv Channa/The Cambodia Daily)

The CNRP claimed that Wednesday’s exercise was a show of force, but General Sucheat said that ten helicopters, 22 motorboats, eight “military boats” and six trucks carrying soldiers were sent to the area for a special training exercise.

“We train our forces to prepare for floods. It’s like you see on the television—the U.S. Army intervenes when they have floods,” Gen. Sucheat said, before hitting back at the opposition’s claims of intimidation.

“Please quote me: To the party that condemns us by claiming the army intimidates or threatens their headquarters, it’s not the truth,” he said. “Please be careful with your words, because they are insolent and against the army’s reputation and honor.”

“When politicians see the army getting stronger, they should congratulate our developing force, but instead some accuse us of intimidating them,” the spokesman said. “We absolutely condemn anyone who looks down upon the army.”

CNRP spokesman Yim Sovann said that while he did not know exactly why the military had deployed the forces above and around the party’s headquarters, it was certainly not a routine event.

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Those are actual photos of CNRP hdqtrs??? WTF! When they say holed up, they mean shit holed up. This is a joke right.
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VERY VERY COOL boats and amphibious tanks

The RCAF could be on a nice little earner offering joyrides at $10 a time on the river
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Luigi wrote:Those are actual photos of CNRP hdqtrs??? WTF! When they say holed up, they mean shit holed up. This is a joke right.
From Wednesday, out front of CNRP HQ. Doesn't look like a joke :
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Press release : According to a press release from the Defense Ministry spokesman yesterday, the movement of armed forces, patrol boats and helicopters in some locations of Phnom Penh and Kandal province was training for pilots and quick reaction forces.

It added that the training took place to enhance the armed forces’ fighting capacity to protect the integrity of the nation.

“This should be encouraged from public and patriotic politicians. Some politicians did not show support when they saw soldiers making an effort to increase their capacity to defend the country and said it threatened and intimidated them,” the press release said.

It added that when those politicians campaign for office, they boast of being patriots and defenders of the country, but then do not support the military when seeing Cambodian soldiers training and striving to improve...
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29277/ ... ting-cnrp/
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Security forces swarm CNRP headquarters in late-night 'exercise'

Tue, 13 September 2016
Shaun Turton and Mech Dara

Just hours after the opposition vowed to organise mass demonstrations, more than a dozen troop-laden trucks and security vehicles, some emblazoned with the insignia of the Prime Minister's Bodyguard Unit, descended on CNRP headquarters last night [Monday 12 Sept]in an apparent show of force.
“At about six or seven in the evening, many police cars, they just passed in front of the headquarters many times; at midnight, trucks full of soldiers came, maybe 20, and stopped on the other side of the street, the street leading to Takhmao,” Botta said, describing a scene confirmed by other sources.

The actions came just days [CEO Edit: August 31] after members of the state security forces buzzed the CNRP headquarters in helicopters and stationed watercraft mounted with machineguns in the river behind the building in an apparent effort to intimidate. Bodyguard Unit officials, however, maintained the “exercises” had simply been routine preparations for the unit’s anniversary celebrations.
Officials today took a similar tack, again maintaining that last night’s actions were simply “exercises”, but adding that from now on they would take place nightly, and were intended to ensure “security”...
Full article: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/s ... t-exercise
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