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300,000 Cambodian garment workers join anti-government protests
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/26/300000-cambodian-garment-workers-join-anti-government-protests/
300,000 Cambodian garment workers join anti-government protests
By Agence France-Presse
Thursday, December 26, 2013 16:19 EST
Thousands of Cambodian garment workers on Thursday joined anti-government protests demanding that Prime Minister Hun Sen step down and call a new election.
The opposition had urged the textile industry’s vast workforce to join its daily rallies in the capital against Hun Sen, and the workers’ participation is a boost to efforts to challenge the long-ruling strongman.
Hun Sen last week rejected opposition calls for him to step down and call a new vote to settle allegations of vote-rigging in July elections.
The protests Thursday coincided with a strike by about 300,000 garment workers for higher pay.