Share Supporters pay their last respect to Kem Ley at Wat Chas pagoda in Phnom Penh in 2016. Hong Menea Five years on, Kem Ley still at heart of debate Sun, 11 July 2021 The murder of social and political analyst Kem Ley remains a subject of debate as civil society organisations (CSOs) observed his death on July 10 and expressed scepticism of the handling of the case. Ley was gunned down on the morning of July 10, 2016, while he was sitting in the StarMart at a Caltex gas station on the corner of Monivong Blvd and Mao Tse Tung Blvd in the capital’s Chamkarmon district.