Government supporters rally in Cambodia as election tension rises


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  • Sunday, 09 Jun 2013

People gather during a protest against acting Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) President Kem Sokha at the Freedom Park in Phnom Penh June 9, 2013. REUTERS/Samrang Pring

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Thousands of government supporters rallied in Cambodia on Sunday against comments allegedly made by an opposition leader about atrocities during the "Killing Fields" era, as the United States denounced moves to expel opposition lawmakers from parliament.

Kem Sokha, acting president of the newly formed Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), was reported to have said that atrocities at the S-21 torture prison in Phnom Penh had been staged by Vietnam when its troops invaded Cambodia in 1978.

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