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PHNOM PENH - The strangled and beaten body of a man identified as a Cambodian journalist was found dumped in a suitcase outside the capital, police said Friday.
The body was found in a deep gorge in Phnom Srouch district, around 40 kilometres from the capital, Wednesday and was later identified as journalist Pov Samarth, 28, by family members, said Keo Pisey, Kampong Speu provincial police chief.
Samarth, the publisher of the obscure Voice of Khmer Krom newspaper, had been reported missing several days earlier and the body had been in the suitcase for two to three days, Pisey said.
‘We can’t say if this was a revenge killing or not at this stage, nor if it was related to his work. He wasn’t killed at this site, but this place has become a popular spot to dump bodies,’ Pisey said. ‘The killer probably disposed of the body here to eliminate clues.’
Officials said Samarth himself was not a member of the Khmer Krom - a group numbering millions of ethnic Cambodians whose land was ceded to Vietnam after the fall of French colonial Indochina.
The topic of the Khmer or Kampuchea Krom is politically sensitive on both sides of the border, with some elements of the Khmer Krom campaigning actively for independence and complaining consistently of suffering human rights violations at the hands of Vietnamese authorities - reports Vietnam denies.
However, Cambodia is generally perceived as having one of the freer presses in the region, and the Ministry of Information has previously come under fire for not introducing greater controls, leading to accusations that some individuals use easily obtained professional accreditation as a thinly veiled tool for extortion.
Police said they were still investigating possible motives for Samarth’s murder.
The body was found in a deep gorge in Phnom Srouch district, around 40 kilometres from the capital, Wednesday and was later identified as journalist Pov Samarth, 28, by family members, said Keo Pisey, Kampong Speu provincial police chief.
Samarth, the publisher of the obscure Voice of Khmer Krom newspaper, had been reported missing several days earlier and the body had been in the suitcase for two to three days, Pisey said.
‘We can’t say if this was a revenge killing or not at this stage, nor if it was related to his work. He wasn’t killed at this site, but this place has become a popular spot to dump bodies,’ Pisey said. ‘The killer probably disposed of the body here to eliminate clues.’
Officials said Samarth himself was not a member of the Khmer Krom - a group numbering millions of ethnic Cambodians whose land was ceded to Vietnam after the fall of French colonial Indochina.
The topic of the Khmer or Kampuchea Krom is politically sensitive on both sides of the border, with some elements of the Khmer Krom campaigning actively for independence and complaining consistently of suffering human rights violations at the hands of Vietnamese authorities - reports Vietnam denies.
However, Cambodia is generally perceived as having one of the freer presses in the region, and the Ministry of Information has previously come under fire for not introducing greater controls, leading to accusations that some individuals use easily obtained professional accreditation as a thinly veiled tool for extortion.
Police said they were still investigating possible motives for Samarth’s murder.
12 comments:
Something to notice:
1. this is a case in a series of killing of khmer krom people including a Khmer Krom Monk who joined a protest.
2. the date of the disappearance of Mr Pov Sam Ath is the day the Khmer Krom Monk protested outside the Vietnamese Embassy and the violence conflict that follow
3. Recent event in South Vietnam of missing Khmer Krom Monks as well the defrocked of many others show that the Vietnamese government is not allowing the demand for the rights of Khmer Krom to be out of control
4. International human rights law like the ICCPR prohibit states from abusing the political and civil rights of its citizen. The UN can intervene in Human Rights are being abuse disregard to the sovereignty claim of a nation.
5. Particular, the Khmer Krom people in South Vietnam should be consider the "indigenous people". Indigenous people receive much more protection from the ICCPR and in particular, there are many special provision on the rights of the indigenous people anywhere in the world.
6. If the Khmer Krom continue to make protest and continue to make noise, there's hope that the world will pay attention. I think the demand should be "for the protection" of the indigenous people in South Vietnam. I understand many people has asked for a secession, a demand which is difficult for anyone to support. Remember, if rights are being asked and they make noise, ultimately it's the people they will ask whether they want to continue to part of Vietnam or independent.
Maybe, but don't make no fucking
noises in Cambodia. There are over
150 countries to chose from,
alright?
As for the suitcase, just
incinerated it, then dump all the
ashes into the Mekong river to send
the man back home.
Re: comment @ 5:47PM
Observingly and interestingly enough, the YUON/Vietcongs pretending to be Khmer, disrespecfully abusive of the freedom of speech, walk all over Khmer's head here on KI-Media. And as a political news blog, there isn't a DAMN thing KI-Media can do about it! What a shame!
the murder of monk and this journalist and other Khmers prey Nokor are masterminded by yuon communist vietcong with the complicity of the traitor HUN XEN, Heng Samrin, Chea Sim, Xihanouk, Xihamoni, Monique to destroy the Khmer soul and territory.
You , Khmer, must know that Yuon Hanoi are everywhere in SROK KHMER, in the ROYAL PALACE(yuon MONIQUE, XIHANOUK had spent years in Saigon), the Government(secret agents HUN XEN, HENG SAMRIN,CHEA SIM, all spent years in Srok Yuon too), Administration, POLICE ( National Police Commissioner General YUON Hok Lundy , the nation’s top police general for more than 15 years and one of the most powerful people in Prime Minister Hun Sen’s inner circle).
Dear compatriots, how can we get out of the YUON communist Vietcong trap?
This kind of yuon vietcong communist comment anti Khmer 5:47 pm mustn't be published in ki-media anymore.
Violence beget Violence!!!!The Vietcong and AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave are promoting violence all over Cambodia and Cambodian people will never have a peace of mind!!!
What is so wrong for the Khmer Krom people to demand peacefully to the Vietcong not to oppress their religeous right???? Tell me!
The Vietcong response by using violence on the Khmer Krom people!!
So in this world only the Vietcong can be violence and can use violence against the non-Vietcong??
It is time to use violent against the Vietcong and make the Vietcong taste their own medicine!!!!
Dear friends,
Do not ask KI to eliminate th Viet's posting, that will make KI a bia and try controle our mind!
In the real world they are there, we need to learn to face them, we want to know there mind and opinion too!
Don't you want Hun Xen to see when you cursr him, if yes why do you scare about his reaction?
Enjoy it Ah Hun Xen and Ah Youn Vietcong read our commences and hurt. If they hurt you back learn to take it!
Be in the real world do not ask for too much protection, fight as a man, indentify your purposes!
Cambodia and Khmer Krom need to unite and work as one. Anyone group or person who does not believe in this only wants to split KHMER into TWO.
No, Cambodia needs to unite with
Vietnam to get Ah Khmer-Yuons
troublemakers out of IndoChina.
Khmer sralang Khmer, it doesn't matter where they were born as long as they got Khmer blood. We know of your deceptions because you have been using the same pattern for years. You wanted us to fight among ourselves, so that you can steal our land more easily. We know your tricks.
Stand up Khmer brothers, unite and fight our aggressors, the Youns.
Dear KI-Media friends et al,
Let's do it by asking each and everyone of us, friends and families and relatives to write/email to our scholars, doctors, lawyers, intellectuals and the like to, in turn, write/email to SAM RAINGSY, KEM SOKHA, RANARITH, THOMICO and other political figures to please set their personal interest asides and join in with one another to form one single democratic party to vote HUN SEN and his regime out of power in the general election of 2008.
Let's do it on a grand scale as this is may be our last chance to save our homeland and little of what we have left during this more than a three decade long of HUN SEN pro-viet regime control of CAMBODIA. Let's see that it happens and disseminated it on every Khmer site on the internet. Below is my email to Dr. Lao Mong Hay. Please help by writing yours right now. Thank you so very much for helping save Cambodia and ourselves.
Very sincerely yours,
Crazy Glue
Dear Dr. LAO Mong Hay,
I am writing to implore your understanding to write/email to SAM RAINGSY, KEM SOKHA, RANARITH, THOMICO and other KHMER political figures alike to please set their personal interest asides to join in and form ONE SIGNLE DEMOCRATIC party to vote HUN SEN and his regime out of CAMBODIA in the general elction of 2008 since this may be the only chance Camdodia has for her existence.
Very respectfully yours,
Crazy Glue
The Vietcong are experiencing the so called Vietcong renaissance in promoting dog eating culture on Cambodia people!!!They even have the gut to come out in supporting the Vietcong aggressor leader such as AH DOG Nguyen Phu Trong to promote their naked aggression and oppression on Cambodian people. This is sickening for all the fucken Viet to do such thing!!!These fucken Viet have no respect in a place where they choose to make their home!!!!!
It is time to end all the fucken Vietcong renaissance by starting with Cambodian leadership such as AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave himself!
AH HUN SEN is either with Cambodia and Cambodian people or with the enemy the Vietcong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If AH HUN SEN consistently continue to choose to side with Vietcong to enslave Cambodian people, the curse of Cambodian people will fall upon him until the day he die!!!!!!!
Oh good, it look like we are on
the right track.
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