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1 May 2014

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Cambodia Daily

On Labor Day, Peaceful Protests Met With Violence

A peaceful Labor Day demonstration of workers calling for better living conditions and independent courts was violently dispersed…by district security guards, municipal police and men in plain clothes, who beat protesters, journalists and bystanders with batons, wooden sticks and crude metal poles…Am Sam Ath, technical supervisor for local rights group Licadho, said that more than 100 Daun Penh district security guards were ordered to attack the protesters…