PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA
Days before nine million people were to vote at general elections, human rights organisations and observers highlighted a number of irregularities, marked by fake indelible ink and unregistered voters. Riots erupted in Phnom Penh after polls closed.
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A woman sits by a ballot box at Wat Phnom Bunrang High School voting station in Phnom Penh. Jul. 28, 2013 ©Erika Pineros
A Muslim woman casts her vote at her local Mosque on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. Jul. 28, 2013 ©Erika Pineros
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy checks for news on the elections at the CNRP headquarters in Phnom Penh. Jul. 28, 2013 ©Erika Pineros
Different kinds of ‘indelible’ ink were used at different voting stations. Voters complained the purple ink came off easily after washing it off. Jul. 28, 2013 ©Erika Pineros
Mobs attack and burn two police cars at Stung Meanchey District in Phnom Penh. Later on they attacked a man they thought to be Vietnamese. Jul. 28, 2013 ©Erika Pineros
Monks watch burning police cars after mobs attacked them at Stung Meanchey District in Phnom Penh. Jul. 28, 2013 ©Erika Pineros
A girl stands by Stung Meanchey’s pagoda’s gates as two police cars burn in the background. Mobs later on attacked a man they thought to be Vietnamese. Jul. 28, 2013 ©Erika Pineros
A man tries to stop a mob from attacking a man they thought was Vietnamese at Stung Meanchey District in Phnom Penh. Jul. 28, 2013 ©Erika Pineros
A man lays in an ambulance after being attacked by mob in Phnom Penh’s Stung Meanchey district when he was mistaken to be Vietnamese. Jul. 28, 2013 ©Erika Pineros
Two police cars burn after mobs set them on fire during riots after national elections in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Jul. 28, 2013 ©Erika Pineros
Human rights defender Venerable Loun Sovath – The Multimedia Monk – documents the Stung Meanchey riots in Phnom Penh. Jul. 28, 2013 ©Erika Pineros
A family watches election results on TV. Some claimed the broadcasted results were not the same as the ones at the polling stations. Phnom Penh. Jul. 28, 2013 ©Erika Pineros
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