Hundreds of Cambodian opposition party members are fleeing their homes for the safety of Phnom Penh as a wave of recrimination surges across the country.
The Phnom Penh headquarters of the Funcinpec and Sam Rainsy parties were yesterday swamped with people seeking help.
Chan Sokhom, a Sam Rainsy Party organiser whose husband was killed in a grenade attack in March last year, said she fled after her home in a central province was surrounded by armed police.
'When I saw them coming I put on a CPP [Cambodian People's Party] T-shirt and ran away. I am convinced they would have killed me if they discovered my Sam Rainsy identity card,' she said.
Ms Chan Sokhom said it was happening everywhere.
Nuon Sim, 39, another Sam Rainsy Party activist from Svay Rieng province in the southeast, said he had received threats from local CPP officials and had been ordered to leave his home late on Wednesday.