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During the country's most recent election, opposition parliamentarian Mu Sochua saw her brave countrywomen standing up to corruption and
demanding change.
After intense campaigning throughout Cambodia that took more than 12 months—from the mountains of MondulKiri to the former stronghold of theKhmer Rouge in Samlot—the 2013 general election produced the result we’d all been aiming for: P'dho, Chneas. Change, We Can.
Against all odds, change was delivered to the people when over 6 million voters—more than half of whom were women under 30—went to the polls on July 28 and the united opposition, the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), won the trust of the people. We had no luxury cars. We had no access to state media. The international community did not give us the slightest chance but we maintained the same strong determination that Cambodia needed a new beginning. Results are being contested, as the ruling party claims they won majority of the votes.
The UN has been called upon to observe the investigation of electoral irregularities filed by the CNRP on behalf of 1.2 million voters who could not vote due to fraudulent voter lists.
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National Rescue Party member Mu Sochua, center, poses for photographs with villagers during a visit to Boeung Kak lake, in Phnom Penh,
Cambodia, Aug. 5, 2013. Cambodian election officials promised to release
complete general election results and ratify them as official if there
are no complaints from the contending political parties. (Heng
Sinith/AP)
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