PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Armed security forces raided the headquarters of Cambodia’s main opposition party and surrounded the car of its No. 2 leader Thursday in an attempt to apprehend him, but they left empty-handed after not finding him in either place, witnesses and officials said.
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy said on his Facebook page that police entered the Cambodian National Rescue Party headquarters looking for his deputy, Kem Sokha. A little while earlier, policemen wearing flak jackets and brandishing guns stopped Kem Sokha’s white SUV on a Phnom Penh street.
“I can only confirm to you that Kem Sokha’s car was surrounded by police with guns,” party spokesman Yim Sovann said. “I think … they want to arrest him,” he said. Sovann declined to say where Kem Sokha was.