Cambodian Press Review
Phnom Penh last week saw the high profile shootings of a popular performer and a trade union leader in both of which robbery has been rejected as a motive, according to newspapers.
Popular singer and televsion host Pov Panhaprich has reportedly survived being shot by a gunman on Norodom Boulevard Friday morning, but may be paralyzed for the rest of her life, said surgeons who operated on the singer, Rasmei Kampuchea reported in its Sunday-Monday edition.
“She has already passed the critical state, but appears to be disabled [and] unable to move her body for [the rest of her] life,” said doctors in neighboring Vietnam ’s Ho Chi Minh city, where the victim has been sent for treatment, according to the newspaper.
Pov Panhapich was initially taken to Preah Ketoh Mealia Military Hosptal and then Calmette Hospital in Phnom Penh before being sent to Ho Chi Minh city at 9:30 am the same day after she was struck by two bullets, noted Samleng Yuvechun Khmer Saturday.
Her health status has been stable, Phnom Penh Municipal Police Chief Touch Naruth said, adding that medical officials have retrieved one bullet from the back of the 23-year-old singer’s neck, but are still to remove another from her hip bone, reports The Cambodia Daily.
Witnesses said they saw a gunman in his 20s shoot Pov Panhapich from the back of a motorcycle at a close range of about a meter when she was walking to the English Language Training Institute after parking her car, according to the newspaper.
Touch Naruth said that the shooting could have resulted from a grudge into which police are probing, Kampuchea Thmey wrote.
“At the first step, we believe that this is not robbery...this is the case of grudge, but we can not conclude what problems caused the grudge, but are waiting for an investigation before making a conclusion,” Sralanh Khmer on Saturday quoted him as saying.However, in The Cambodia Daily today, he said that police have yet to decide the motive behind the assault, and to identify suspects.
Rumors have spread that the murder has grown out of anger of the wife of a general who had left his house to live with the chanteuse, wrote Rasmei Kampuchea.
Kem Ron , who claimed to be Pov Panhapich ’s cousin, denied that the murder has something to do with “a love triangle,” saying it could stem from a grudge, Samleng Yuvechun Khmer wrote.
Since 1999, four popular female artists including Piseth Pilika , Touch Srey Nich, Tat Marina and Pov Panhapich have been lethally attacked or injured seriously, note news archives. No one has been arrested for the attacks.
The Khmer Actress Association issued a statement Friday urging authorities of all levels to unmask and bring Pov Panhapich ’s assailant to justice, reported Rasmei Kampuchea.
A day following Pov Panhapich’s shooting, Hy Vuthy, a factory-level union leader at Suntex garment manufactuerer in Dangkor district’s Choam Chao commune was shot to death by an unknown gunman at 5:15 am as he was driving home on a motorbike from the factory, newspapers reported Sunday.
According to witnesses, the perpetrator, in plain clothes, was on a motorbike with an accomplice near the 36-year-old unionist and fired three bullets at him with a K 59 pistol, Sralanh Khmer wrote.
Two of the bullets hit Hy Vuthy in the lower part of his left armpit and the left waist, according to Rasmei Kampuchea. Hy Vuthy , a member of the Free Trade Union of the Kingdom of Cambodia (FTUKC), died after being taken to a private hopstial.
“It was not a robbery because the killers didn’t take his motorbike,” said Dangkao district deputy police chief Chuop Sok Heng, adding that suspects have not been identified, reports The Cambodia Daily.
District police chief Bon Sam At said Hy Vuthy could have been killed due to revenge, according to Sralanh Khmer.
Popular singer and televsion host Pov Panhaprich has reportedly survived being shot by a gunman on Norodom Boulevard Friday morning, but may be paralyzed for the rest of her life, said surgeons who operated on the singer, Rasmei Kampuchea reported in its Sunday-Monday edition.
“She has already passed the critical state, but appears to be disabled [and] unable to move her body for [the rest of her] life,” said doctors in neighboring Vietnam ’s Ho Chi Minh city, where the victim has been sent for treatment, according to the newspaper.
Pov Panhapich was initially taken to Preah Ketoh Mealia Military Hosptal and then Calmette Hospital in Phnom Penh before being sent to Ho Chi Minh city at 9:30 am the same day after she was struck by two bullets, noted Samleng Yuvechun Khmer Saturday.
Her health status has been stable, Phnom Penh Municipal Police Chief Touch Naruth said, adding that medical officials have retrieved one bullet from the back of the 23-year-old singer’s neck, but are still to remove another from her hip bone, reports The Cambodia Daily.
Witnesses said they saw a gunman in his 20s shoot Pov Panhapich from the back of a motorcycle at a close range of about a meter when she was walking to the English Language Training Institute after parking her car, according to the newspaper.
Touch Naruth said that the shooting could have resulted from a grudge into which police are probing, Kampuchea Thmey wrote.
“At the first step, we believe that this is not robbery...this is the case of grudge, but we can not conclude what problems caused the grudge, but are waiting for an investigation before making a conclusion,” Sralanh Khmer on Saturday quoted him as saying.However, in The Cambodia Daily today, he said that police have yet to decide the motive behind the assault, and to identify suspects.
Rumors have spread that the murder has grown out of anger of the wife of a general who had left his house to live with the chanteuse, wrote Rasmei Kampuchea.
Kem Ron , who claimed to be Pov Panhapich ’s cousin, denied that the murder has something to do with “a love triangle,” saying it could stem from a grudge, Samleng Yuvechun Khmer wrote.
Since 1999, four popular female artists including Piseth Pilika , Touch Srey Nich, Tat Marina and Pov Panhapich have been lethally attacked or injured seriously, note news archives. No one has been arrested for the attacks.
The Khmer Actress Association issued a statement Friday urging authorities of all levels to unmask and bring Pov Panhapich ’s assailant to justice, reported Rasmei Kampuchea.
A day following Pov Panhapich’s shooting, Hy Vuthy, a factory-level union leader at Suntex garment manufactuerer in Dangkor district’s Choam Chao commune was shot to death by an unknown gunman at 5:15 am as he was driving home on a motorbike from the factory, newspapers reported Sunday.
According to witnesses, the perpetrator, in plain clothes, was on a motorbike with an accomplice near the 36-year-old unionist and fired three bullets at him with a K 59 pistol, Sralanh Khmer wrote.
Two of the bullets hit Hy Vuthy in the lower part of his left armpit and the left waist, according to Rasmei Kampuchea. Hy Vuthy , a member of the Free Trade Union of the Kingdom of Cambodia (FTUKC), died after being taken to a private hopstial.
“It was not a robbery because the killers didn’t take his motorbike,” said Dangkao district deputy police chief Chuop Sok Heng, adding that suspects have not been identified, reports The Cambodia Daily.
District police chief Bon Sam At said Hy Vuthy could have been killed due to revenge, according to Sralanh Khmer.
5 comments:
If police cannot protect people's life, then distribute gun to individuals to protect themselves. this is the state of gun, or it is easy for powerful people to kill innocent people like this.
let's name who might be considered as her killer. Begin...
FROM KHMENG WAT KHNONG SROK
TO PEOPLE ABOVE
WE ARE YUON-HANOI WHO WOULD IMPLEMENT HO CHI MINH'S DREAM UNTIL CAMBODIA BECOMES ONE OF OUR INDOCHINA'STATE.
WE KNOW THAT BEING A DOG ITSN'T A EASY LIFE AS YOU ALL SEE EVERYDAY
PRIME MINISTER HUN SEN WHO BARKS DAY & NIGHT TO PROTECT & DEFEND YOUN-HANOI.
PLEASE FORGIVE US WHO WERE BORN AS
A PEST OF KHMER NATION.
KHMENG WAT KHNONG SROK
ACCORDING TO BUDDHIST RULE IF YOU DO SOMETHING BAD TO MONK, YOU WILL GO TO HELL. SO VIETNAMESE GOVERNEMNT WILL GET THE RESULT FROM WHAT THEY DID TO THE MONKS(go to hell)
REAL KHMENG WAT KHNONG SROK
WHO LEARN AND KNow THE BUDDHIST RULE
Oh, thank God for rendering the
two troublemakers lifelesses.
Now we all can move forward
peacefully.
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