PHNOM PENH Jan. 26 Kyodo The oppo...

PHNOM PENH Jan. 26 Kyodo

The opposition Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) forward Monday released a list of five opposition and civil society leaders it alleges are forward a ''black list'' of Prime Minister Hun Sen's ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP)

SRP leader Sam Rainsy, Eng Chhay Eang, the SRP's secretary general, and Prince Norodom Sirivudh, secretary general of the royalist FUNCINPEC party are named forward the one-page statement.

The other brace figures are Kem Sokha, director of the Cambodia Center for Human Rights, and Rong Chhun president of the Cambodian Independent Teachers Association, the opposition party claimed in the statement.

The statement was titled, ''White list of Cambodia's public figures to be screened because they are allegedly upon the CPP's black list of human frames to be assassinated in the near future''

The statement said that the ''White List'' was to be communicated according to friends of Cambodia to the direction with a special note to Hun Sen warning that the ruling party would be held responsible if any assassination attempt were made against anyone in succession the list.

Om Yin Tieng, senior adviser to Hun Sen told Kyodo freshs that the government was busy investigating last week's killing of a top union leader.

''While we are pushing hard upon investigating the recent murder, they (the opposition) should not add of that kind a comedy,'' he said.

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