The Thai authorities accused an adviser to Hun Sen of hiring the gunman who killed a former Cambodian opposition figure in Bangkok last week.

Lim Kimya was gunned down by a motorcyclist as he arrived in Bangkok by bus from Cambodia with his French wife.

Cambodia’s Cabinet has approved a draft bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying atrocities were carried out in the late 1970s under the rule of communist Khmer Rouge, whose brutal policies are blamed for the deaths of 1.

Lim Kimya was shot twice and died near the Khao San Road tourist precinct on January 7 by former Thai naval marine Ekkalak Pheanoi who then fled into Cambodia where he was apprehended and extradited. Thai police say Ekkalak has confessed to the murder.

Hun Manet has refuted allegations that his government was involved in the assassination of Khmer-French politician Lim Kimya

Lim Kimya, 74, a former lawmaker of the now-defunct Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), was shot and killed in Bangkok, Thailand, by Thai national Ekkalak Phaenoi. After the attack, Ekkalak fled to Cambodia but was captured by Battambang authorities and handed over to their Thai counterparts.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet denied on Monday his government and father, former leader Hun Sen, were involved in the killing of an opposition politician in downtown Bangkok this month.

A Thai national was arrested in Cambodia over the killing of former lawmaker Lim Kimya. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Thai national Ekalak Paenoi, center, the prime suspect in the killing of former lawmaker of the dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) Lim Kimya, is escorted by police officers at the police airport in Bangkok on Jan 11, 2025, after returning from Cambodia. (Photo: AFP)

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet has forcefully denied that the government was involved in the assassination of Lim Kimya, a former opposition party lawmaker who was fatally shot by a Thai gunman in Bangkok on January 7.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet has denied that his government and father, former leader Hun Sen, were involved in the killing of an opposition politician in Bangkok this month.

The recent killing of Cambodian dissident Lim Kimya in Thailand and the potential deportation of Uyghur refugees highlight Thailand's inability to pro