A Thai court has issued an arrest warrant for a 41-year-old motorcycle taxi driver accused of murdering Lim Kimya, a former Cambodian opposition lawmaker, in a brazen attack in Bangkok. Lim Kimya, 74, a member of the dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), was shot dead on Tuesday by a waiting gunman. Police believe the killing was a targeted assassination.
General view of the scene where a former politician with now-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party Lim Kimya, 74, was shot dead, in Bangkok - REUTERSpix: A Thai court on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for an alleged hit man who shot dead a former Cambodia n opposition lawmaker in a brazen attack in Bangkok’s crowded old quarter, police said.
Police Colonel Sanong Saengmanee, superintendent of the local precinct, told Reuters an arrest warrant had been issued for a 41-year-old motorcycle taxi driver for premeditated murder. Lim Kimya was a member of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, the popular opposition that was dissolved by a court ahead of a 2018 election over an alleged treason plot. The CNRP said at the time that the charges against it were fabricated by the ruling Cambodian People’s Party.
“The Cambodian government has intimidated, surveilled and harassed former CNRP members – including those living in exile in neighboring Thailand.”
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