The father of her wounded niece is a bodyguard to opposition leader Sam Rainsy.
The protesters were led by Prince Norodom Ranariddh and his ally, former finance minister Sam Rainsy.
Prominent government critic Sam Rainsy wasted no time accusing Hun Sen of complicity in the murder.
The other main party, Sam Rainsy's, is popular, in Phnom Penh especially, for its clean image.
ECONOMIST: Hun Sen means to stay in power, by hook or by crook
Long-standing animosity and rancour between Hun Sen, Prince Ranariddh and Sam Rainsy are at the root of the current impasse.
Even leading government critic Sam Rainsy will return to test the political temperature -- and maybe register his Khmer Nation Party.
CPP's victory was the inevitability that the losers Funcinpec and the eponymous Sam Rainsy Party would frustrate efforts to form a new government.
The tale has been diligently aired by the opposition Sam Rainsy Party.
Mr Sam Rainsy called on March 25th for the election to be delayed, to allow more time to prepare for a fair contest.
"I think this is a major step toward free and fair elections, " says oppositionist Sam Rainsy, who runs a political party named after himself.
In the faction-ridden royalist party, many fear that Sam Rainsy is a bigger threat than Hun Sen to the survival of a declining Funcinpec.
As Sam Rainsy, the leader of the party, quickly pointed out, it fared best in cities and accessible rural regions where information flows relatively freely.
The migrants are routinely demonised by the opposition Sam Rainsy Party.
Contradicting earlier predictions of a tight three-way race, these postulated a result of 66 seats for the CPP, 43 for Funcinpec and just 13 for the Sam Rainsy Party.
Throughout the day, Sam Rainsy, whose eponymous opposition party is one of three main contenders, was busy shuttling from one place to another urging his countrymen to vote freely.
The special task force established to solve the killing is headed by Teng Savong, the general who investigated the 1997 grenade attack on a march led by Sam Rainsy.
Hence the need for a coalition that includes at least the prince's party, and in which Mr Hun Sen says he wants to include Sam Rainsy's party as well.
An opinion poll by an organisation said to have links with the opposition Sam Rainsy Party found that more than 80% of Cambodians want the Khmers Rouges' leaders to face prosecution.
Nonetheless, the results will encourage the Sam Rainsy Party.
The Human Rights Party, with three of the 123 seats in the national assembly, and the Sam Rainsy Party (SRP), with 26 seats, have joined to form the Cambodian National Rescue Party.
The prince and opposition leader Sam Rainsy have refused to accept Second Prime Minister Hun Sen's victory in the parliamentary election held on July 26, contending he won through intimidation, fraud and bias.
Furthermore, like many successful strongmen, he has the common touch, which allows him to connect with ordinary Cambodians in a way that his principal opponent, Sam Rainsy of the eponymous Sam Rainsy Party, has struggled to equal.
Referring to neighboring Laos, Yun raised concern over the disappearance of award-winning social activist Sombath Somphone and the situation faced by Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy, who lives in exile to avoid imprisonment on what Yun said were politically motivated charges.
The grenade attack on a Sam Rainsy demonstration which killed at least 16 people outside the National Assembly in early 1997 is still unsolved, as are the murders of some 100 people in the wake of political violence a few months later which ousted Prince Norodom Ranariddh as first prime minister.
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