Jail for opposition leader

In protest: Thach Setha (left) speaking to protesters in front of the Vietnamese Embassy in Phnom Penh in 2014. — AFP

A court here has jailed a senior opposition figure for three years over his social media post discussing the disputed history of the fall of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime.

The ultra-Maoist regime left about two million Cambodians dead from overwork, starvation, illness and mass executions from 1975-79.