David Whitehouse
Jan 22
Former Cambodian opposition member of parliament Lim Kimya, who was also a French citizen, was shot and killed in Bangkok on January 7.
Thailand’s courts have issued an arrest warrant for Ly Ratanakrasmey, an adviser to Cambodian dictator Hun Sen, in connection with the killing.
The case fits into a long-standing pattern of transnational repression by the Cambodian regime. My article, published by the US-based diasporic Khmer Movement for Democracy, summarizes cases where diasporic Cambodians are victims of transnational repression in Asia, North America and Europe.
The Cambodian pattern is part of the wider rise of transnational repression. The regime, along with only Myanmar in Southeast Asia, is a partner of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which includes larger perpetrators such as China and Russia. The SCO is known to share information used for transnational repression.
The article argues that the US should adopt the Transnational Repression Policy Act, introduced in March 2023 by a bipartisan group of senators.
Read the article here: https://shorturl.at/FqL07
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