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Mu Sochua Urges Fight on Rights ‘Battlefield’

By Men Kimseng, VOA Khmer
Original report from Washington
14 September 2009

Sam Rainsy Party lawmaker Mu Sochua, who is on a mission to the US, appealed to Cambodians here to provide stronger support to the struggle for freedom and human rights in their home country.

“Compatriots in the US, please continue your work by meeting with your congressmen and senators in all states,” Mu Sochua told a group of some 60 participants gathered Thursday in Arlington, Va., a suburb of the capital.

“We now go to the hot battlefield [in Cambodia], and back here the battlefield is also hot, but please go on,” she said, following her testimony at a congressional hearing on human rights the same day