Please keep eye on Hun Sen and our election, Cambodia opposition pleads to world


Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen arrives at the National Assembly in Phnom Penh October 30, 2015. REUTERS/Samrang Pring

TOKYO (Reuters) - Cambodian opposition leaders on Tuesday called on the world to keep a close eye on upcoming elections after several opposition lawmakers were brutally beaten and a top leader ousted from a key parliamentary post.

Ruling party lawmakers stripped Kem Sokha, deputy president of the main opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), of his deputy parliament president post last month, a move that suggests a fragile political deal between the two parties has collapsed.

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