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WORLD NEWS Friday 8 November 2019
Cambodian opposition leader stopped from returning home

By THOMAS ADAMSON party members from flying
EILEEN NG to Thailand and temporar-
Associated Press ily detaining Cambodia
PARIS (AP) — Cambodia's National Rescue Party Vice
most prominent opposition President Mu Sochua when
leader, Sam Rainsy, was she arrived late Wednes-
stopped from boarding a day night.
flight in Paris on Thursday in At Charles de Gaulle Air-
his attempt to return home port outside Paris, an angry
to challenge his country's Sam Rainsy told reporters
longtime autocratic leader, that he wouldn't be cowed
but he assured his followers by being kept off his flight
he will go ahead with his and said he plans to return
plan. via another neighboring
He and fellow leaders of country.
the banned Cambodia "Never, never will I aban-
National Rescue Party had don. We need to continue,
vowed to enter Cambodia the days of Hun Sen are
from Thailand on Saturday numbered. Democracy will
to spark a popular move- be reinstalled in the near
ment to oust Prime Minister future. It's our conviction
Hun Sen from power. and our determination,"
When Sam Rainsy tried to Cambodia's most prominent opposition politician Sam Rainsy clenches his fist as he is attempting he said. He later made an
take a Thai Airways flight to to return to Cambodia Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019 at Charles de Gaulle airport, north of Paris. online broadcast on Face-
Bangkok from Paris, where Associated Press book, where he has almost
he lives in exile, Thailand's had received from very not allow me to board," he neighboring countries. 4.8 million followers, calling
flag carrier told him "they high up the instruction to said. Hun Sen had declared that on his compatriots not to
Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Sam Rainsy and his col- be disappointed and re-
China sentences 3 in fentanyl Chan-ocha said Wednes- leagues would be blocked main strong.
day that Sam Rainsy would from entering Cambodia "We will be seeking all the
trafficking case after US tip not be allowed to enter and had informed neigh- possibilities, all the options,
boring countries that they in order to make sure that
Thailand because mem-
bers of the Association of were unwelcome. we are finally able to arrive
Southeast Asian Nations — Malaysia also has hin- in Cambodia to push for
like Thailand and Cambo- dered the free movement the regime change plan
dia — have a policy of not of Cambodian opposition that our Cambodians are
interfering in the affairs of politicians, stopping two hungry to see," he said.q

Police stand guard outside the Xingtai Intermediate People’s
court in Xingtai, China Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019.
Associated Press
By ERIKA KINETZ the U.S. and other countries
Associated Press from a gritty clandestine
XINGTAI, China (AP) — A laboratory. They arrested
Chinese court sentenced more than 20 criminal sus-
three fentanyl traffickers pects and seized 11.9 ki-
Thursday in a case that lograms (26.23 pounds) of
was a culmination of a rare fentanyl as well as 19.1 ki-
collaboration between lograms (42.11 pounds) of
Chinese and U.S. law en- other drugs.
forcement to crack down Austin Moore, an attaché
on global networks that to China for the U.S. Home-
manufacture and distribute land Security Department,
lethal synthetic opioids. said the case was “an im-
Liu Yong was sentenced to portant step” showing that
death with a two-year re- Chinese and U.S. investiga-
prieve, while Jiang Juhua tors have the capacity to
and Wang Fengxi were collaborate across interna-
sentenced to life in prison. tional borders.
Six other members of the U.S. officials say China’s
operation got lesser sen- vast chemicals industry is
tences. the main source of illicit
Working off a 2017 tip from fentanyl. Chinese officials
the U.S. Department of deny that, blaming greedy
Homeland Security, Chi- pharmaceutical compa-
nese police busted a drug nies, lax regulation, and
ring based in the northern out-of-control demand as
Chinese city of Xingtai that the reasons America has
shipped synthetic drugs to an opioid abuse crisis.q