Cambodian court charges exiled politicians with rebellion

A Cambodian court has charged seven top opposition politicians with plotting armed rebellion for planning to return from self-imposed exile to seek a change in government through mass peaceful protests. The Phnom Penh Municipal Court also warned that anyone who supported the plans of the Cambodia National Rescue Party to oust the government would also be risking a long prison term. Nov. 9 is Cambodia’s independence day, celebrating when it obtained its freedom from France in 1953.