Kem Sokha
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"Kem Sokha" is a Cambodian people/Cambodian politician and Vice President of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP). He has been the First Vice President of the National Assembly of Cambodia since 2014, and he represents Kampong Cham province/Kampong Cham as its Member of Parliament (MP). From 2007 to 2012, Sokha was the leader of the Human Rights Party (Cambodia)/Human Rights Party, which he founded.

His political career began in Cambodian Constituent Assembly election, 1993/1993, when he was elected a representative for Kandal Province/Kandal; at that time he was a member of Son Sann's Buddhist Liberal Democratic Party. In 1999, he joined the royalist FUNCINPEC and subsequently elected a senator. He resigned from his Senate seat in 2001. In the Cambodian general election, 2008/2008 elections, the Human Rights Party gained three seats in the National Assembly.

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I told him, if you want to rule the country longer you must support civil society. He will not change easily but I tried to change his mind.

I told him that we still need freedom to carry out our work. He said he supported this, and told me to keep on doing what we've been doing.

Our purpose in organizing this march is to support and demand guarantees for freedom of expression and nonviolence in society.