General Hun Manet (L), Commander of the Royal Cambodian Army and now Prime Minister, shakes hands with General Hing Bun Heang (R), commander of Prime Minister Hun Sen's bodyguard unit, during a promotion ceremony on April 20, 2023. Hing Bun Heang and Huy Piseth will be prosecuted in absentia by a Paris criminal court from March 19, 2025. - AFP
PARIS: Two ex-bodyguards for former Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen go on trial in absentia in France on Wednesday (March 19), charged over a 1997 grenade attack on a leading opposition figure.
Several grenades detonated on March 30, 1997 during an opposition rally of around 200 people in Phnom Penh denouncing state corruption. At least 16 people were killed and 150 injured.
