Cambodians Doubt Official Explanation of Activist’s Killing

Kem Ley, a poor rice farmer’s son turned champion of Cambodia’s have-nots, was sipping his usual iced latte in the same chair he had occupied most mornings for years. Eyewitnesses say a former soldier walked into the Caltex gas station cafe, fired a semi-automatic Glock pistol into his chest and head and casually walked away. Two weeks later, tens of thousands of mourners thronged Phnom Penh’s streets to trail the glass casket bearing Kem Ley’s body in the largest public rally Cambodia...

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