Published January 13, 2015
Cambodia's National Assembly has approved a bill making it a crime to deny that atrocities were committed by the genocidal 1970s communist Khmer Rouge regime. Critics say the law will be used as a weapon against the political opposition.
The assembly passed the bill unanimously in the absence of opposition lawmakers, who were expelled from the legislature this week. A committee controlled by the ruling Cambodian People's Party said the lawmakers must relinquish their seats under the law because they had joined a new party to contest this July's general election.
Prime Minister Hun Sen called for the law after a leading opposition lawmaker reportedly suggested that some of the evidence of Khmer Rouge atrocities was fabricated by Vietnam, whose army invaded to oust the Khmer Rouge in 1979.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/cambodian-legislators-pass-bill-making-denial-of-khmer-rouge-atrocities-a-crime