Leader seeks US case against PM

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen was accused of being behind a deadly 1997 attack on a political rally by an opposition leader. -- PHOTO: AFP

Sep 24, 2010
AFP

PHNOM PENH - CAMBODIA'S opposition leader said on Friday he had filed a criminal lawsuit in the United States against Prime Minister Hun Sen, accusing him of being behind a deadly 1997 attack on a political rally.

The move by Sam Rainsy, who lives in self-imposed exile abroad, comes a day after a court in the Cambodian capital sentenced him to 10 years in jail in absentia for forging and publishing a false map of the border with Vietnam.

The 60-year-old already had a two-year jail term hanging over his head for uprooting border posts with the neighbouring country.