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Breaking News Saturday - troops crackdown on vigil for slain protestors


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RT @ doyle_kevin 11:07 AM Just spotted pick-up truck with heavily armed troops moving through Phnom Penh, MPs moving near Freedom Park protest site. Something is up!

RT @MuSochua 11:16 AM Very heavy police numbers surrounding #Freedompark now

RT ‏@instupor 11:28 AM Military riot police move in to block streets off Freedom Park

RT @doyle_kevin 11:30 AM Appears to be start of police and military police operation to clear Freedom Park of opposition supporters

RT @instupor 11:31 AM

People fleeing freedom park

RT @instupor 11:34 AM

The announcer is urging people to leave and they are running like hell

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RT @doyle_kevin 12:03 PM Must be 300 thugs in park destroying stage, tents under which people had sat during demo, which started Dec.15



RT @doyle_kevin 12:09 PM Just received report - Unconfirmed - that arrest warrants have been issued for opposition part leaders



RT @doyle_kevin 12:10 PM Just heard one of the gov't thugs clearing Freedom Park say humorously to his partners: "this is democracy."



RT@instupor 12:15 PM Military helicopters - two - flying over Freedom Park


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RT @instupor 12:16 PM Those who have been camping here have lost everything - all their belongings left when they fled ruthlessly destroyed.



RT @doyle_kevin 12:17 PM 3 of the gov'ts new Chinese military helicopters circling over Freedom Park much to the glee of the thugs who just beat monks and women



RT@instupor 12:17 PM Unconfirmed that opposition deputy head Kem Sokha among those to be arrested.





RT @doyle_kevin 12:26 PM Just spoke to two men with steel bars who said they and 20 others were trucked in from Stung Meanchey area. Civilians+paid?



RT @instupor 12:31 PM Rumors going among rights workers that monitors will be arrested at Freedom Park. Terrifying message if true



RT @doyle_kevin 12:40 PM Helicopters are back buzzing what's left of Freedom Park. Thugs are searching belongings left behind by protesters. Looting the spoils!




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RT @instupor 12:45 PM They are running to Wat Phnom around the US embassy



RT @instupor 12:46 PM Many armed with metal bars. Beware if there, this will not end well. Likely the same hired thugs from September



RT @instupor 12:49 PM At least five trucks of MPs passed Wat Phnom where thugs headed now



RT @instupor 12:50 PM They are following them in now. Who knows what or who they are after


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ADHOC-Cambodia @ADHOC__Cambodia 5 min

RT @Preah_Ream: Official order from City Hall no more protests http://www.cen.com.kh/localnews/show_detail/19?token=YzdmZmUzNG #Cambodia #ProtestsKH

Casey Nelson @LTO_cambodia 5 min

1998 http://www.garella.com/rich/camelect/srpdocs6.htm

Same crackdown in 1998

http://www.garella.com/rich/camelect/srpdocs6.htm

Kevin Doyle @doyle_kevin 4 min

Civilian thugs wearing red cloth armbands today. Troops loyal to Hun Sen who fought in 1997 to oust Prince Ranariddh also wore red armbands

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RT @julia_wallace 1:36 PM They are still trying to figure out how to evict this blind old woman who cannot walk from Freedom Park. pic.twitter.com/a3NufEiJ0K



RT@instupor 1:46 PM A rights worker said: well, better than 1998 when they just threw grenades in to break it. Truly sad that after 15 years that's only progress



RT @doyle_kevin 1:47 PM 15 years after PM Hun Sen crushed mass protests, he is at it again. Old-school style: thugs with steel pipes and military police with AKs.



RT @bartlettkate 1:45 PM No arrest warrants out for cnrp leaders, govt says, but they will be called to court for questioning #cambodia unrest



RT @vendredy 1:46PM 4 years on, #FreedomPark has turn into #OppressionPark. #PhnomPenh pic.twitter.com/OoXbWklg5d


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I'm in St 110 just two or three blocks away. All the chatter is about the situation. A truck just backfired and everyone jumped in reflex. The view seems to be that this will strengthen resolve and everyone will regroup tomorrow. Maybe not Freedom Park but somewhere. It doesn't look like this will snuff the candle.

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Yes, that is the sense I am getting too. People talk about this being a replay of 1998 but it's not quite...people are braver now and dissent is less easily squashed.



Even the '98 crackdown was not a complete success. I remember the '98 demonstrations as a watershed, before them people lived in fear and didn't dare to talk politics, during them people found out their neighbors felt as they did, and for the first time experienced the exhilaration of speaking out. Even after the demonstrations then were brutally suppressed, things never went back to where they had been, from that time on people were more outspoken. And not just in PP.



Each go round, something is gained, though the process may take time.






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