Exiled Cambodia opposition leader’s image purged from billboards

Persona non grata: A woman walking past a CNRP billboard with a covered-up image of Rainsy (right) in a village in Pursat province. — AFP

Phnom Penh: He has become the man without a face. In recent weeks, Cambodia’s beleaguered opposition has been frantically scrubbing images of their exiled leader Sam Rainsy from thousands of billboards and signposts across the country.

The mass pictorial purge was sparked by a controversial new law banning any political party from “using the voice, images or written documents” of anyone convicted of a crime.