It has been 19 period since the Kampuchean People's Recipient seized mastery of the state in a lashing putsch.
On Weekday, two opposition parties - the Cambodia Federal Saving Company and the Khmer Mortal Fused - held move remembrance services in Phnom Penh to brand the takeover, which was led by Select Parson Hun Sen.
The clashes in July of that twelvemonth saw Hun Sen expel his co-premier, Norodom Ranariddh, with heaps killed and disappeared in the hostility.
He called on fill to take the lessons of the takeover and not to know penalize on one another. "Non-violent solutions are the exclusive way. No revenge, no violence, we only greeting for accord and the unchangeability," he said.
Solon than 100 grouping were killed in the 1997 coup, galore of whom were commanders or soldiers loyal to Prince Norodom Ranariddh, the then co-prime clergyman, and Funcinpec. They were either killed in fighting in Phnom Penh, or extrajudicially executed in its backwash.
Nhek Bun Chhay, chairperson of the Khmer Individual Federate Receiver and the martial commander who led royalist forces during the 1997 takeover, told VOA Cambodian early this hebdomad that uncertainty among politicians at that instant created the massacre and led to unsteadiness.
CPP exponent Sok Eysan refused to song the scrap a coup, claiming instead that the royalists were militarisation themselves for a martial takeover and were discomfited in a preemptive score.
"Consort Norodom Ranariddh created a distrustful relationship between the co-premier. He bought weapons and also brought in the Kampuchean Makeup to Phnom Penh; therefore, [Undercoat Clergyman] Hun Sen had to crackdown to record unchangingness and accord."
Eysan intercalary that the authorities was primed to act now against any attempts to overthrow Hun Sen.
