A former Cambodian opposition MP was shot dead by a gunman on a motorcycle in Bangkok yesterday in an apparent political assassination, according to Thai media reports.

The Bangkok Post reported that Lim Kimya, 73, was shot twice at around 4 p.m. near Wat Bowonniwet Vihara in the city’s Phra Nakhon district. He then “died at the scene.” It said that “officers with the Metropolitan Police Bureau have launched a manhunt for the assassin.”

As per the Post, police said surveillance camera video from the scene showed “a man riding a red Honda Wave 100 motorcycle, license plate number 845, wearing a helmet, long jeans and a grey short-sleeved shirt with a bag across the front.” According to Radio Free Asia, surveillance video footage posted to Facebook “showed a tall man remove his helmet just before strolling across a busy street.” Three shots can then be heard off camera, before the man jogs back to his motorbike and makes his getaway.

Kimya, a dual Cambodian-French citizen, had recently traveled to Bangkok by bus from Siem Reap in western Cambodia with his French wife and Cambodian uncle, the Post reported.

Kimya was a member of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), which was the main opposition party in Cambodia from its formation in 2012 to its dissolution by the Supreme Court in late 2017. He was elected to parliament for the CNRP in........

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