Security guards carry away a protester during yesterday’s NagaWorld strike in which scores rallied outside the Phnom Penh casino calling for better conditions.

In a crackdown condemned as “overkill” by labour-rights groups, armed police and security guards broke up a peaceful protest of mostly young women at NagaWorld casino yesterday, briefly detaining 19 workers and their union leaders.

Eleven of those detained were female, while another woman was taken to hospital after fainting and scores more were left in tears outside the casino, visibly shaken by their ordeal.

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Source: (The Phnom Penh Post – June 19, 2013)