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| Fleeing Phnom Penh residents carry their belongings after a fuel dump exploded on Sunday July 6, 1997. (Photo: AP) |
Washington, D.C Wednesday, 06 October 2010
“There has been much evidence that remains of those who used cruel power to torture before killing Funcinpec officials after the coup.”
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy says he is prepared to sue Prime Minister Hun Sen for crimes against humanity, for killings alleged committed in the 1997 coup and for the treatment of civilians during the civil war in the 1980s.
“There has been much evidence that remains of those who used cruel power to torture before killing Funcinpec officials after the coup,” Sam Rainsy said Monday.
The fighting in July 1997 led to the crippling of the royalist Funcinpec party, as the Cambodian People's Party seized power from a brokered coalition.
Sam Rainsy said as many as 100 Funcinpec officials were killed or executed in two days of fighting. Spouses of the deceased fled the country, he said, and many now live in dire conditions.
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