Cambodia opposition protestors marching to foreign embassies

Opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) leader Sam Rainsy on Friday led thousands of supporters to deliver petitions to the embassies of Australia, Russia, Japan, Indonesia, and China in order to seek their interventions in the disputed poll results. It was the third and last day of the CNRP's three-day mass protest against the July election results that gave victory to Prime Minister Hun Sen's ruling party. Heavy security forces have been deployed along streets on which the protestors were marching in order to maintain security, safety and public order. On Wednesday, the Sam Rainsy-led protestors marched from the Freedom Park to the United Nations office to submit a petition with a call for the agency's intervention in the contested poll, and on Thursday, they continued marching to deliver petitions to three embassies of France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Sam Rainsy said the petitions were to seek interventions from the UN and signatory countries of the 1991 Paris Peace Agreement in the country's political deadlock after the poll. There has been no report of clashes between police and protestors so far. The CNRP had launched a three-day mass protest in mid-September, sparking two clashes in which the police had fired tear gas, smoke bombs and water cannons to disperse the protesters. As a result, a protestor was shot dead and several got wounded. The country held a parliamentary poll on July 28. The official results revealed that the ruling party of Hun Sen won victory, but the CNRP refused to accept the results, claiming serious irregularities during the poll.