Cambodia: Cambodia’s Penal Code Aims to Silence Gov’t Critics
Little of that has silenced Mu Sochua, a female parliamentarian belonging to the opposition Sam Rainsy Party. She has fired verbal salvos at the Hun Sen administration in her quest for justice. It is part of an over two-decade-long commitment to improve her war-torn country, beginning in 1991 with a fight for women’s rights.Sochua was only 18 years old and a fresh high school graduate when the U.S. war in Vietnam spread to Cambodia in 1972, plunging a country that had remained neutral into a conflict that lasted 20 years. She left her country for an education in the West but her parents, who remained, became victims of the Khmer Rouge atrocities.
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