An exiled former Cambodian opposition leader has urged the international community to reject the results of the country’s upcoming election, citing “systematic manipulation and falsification” by the Cambodian authorities.
Sam Rainsy, who co-founded the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), said Cambodia has only had one fair election since 1975—the United Nations-supervised election in 1993, which saw the defeat of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) led by Prime Minister Hun Sen.
“Unlike neighboring Malaysia, Thailand, and Myanmar, Cambodia has not had an independent electoral commission in the eyes of its democratic opposition since 1993,” Rainsy wrote in an article published in Nikkei Asia on May 9….