(Kyodo) - Cambodia destroyed about 2,400 small arms Thursday with help from the Japanese government in a joint project that began in 2003.
Some 2,428 small arms, including rifles and handguns, were burned with help from the Japan Assistance Team for Small Arms Management in Cambodia in Kompong Thom Province, about 150 kilometers north of Phnom Penh.
Provincial Gov. Nam Yum presided over a ceremony called "Flame of Peace" and more than 1,000 people, including government officers, police and local residents attended.
"A large part of these weapons were voluntarily surrendered by residents in Kampong Thom Province, following appeals to surrender weapons to the authorities through various JSAC awareness-raising activities, such as workshops," Yukiko Murasaki, JSAC's project officer, said by phone.
"The destruction ceremony is expected to enhance the residents' confidence in the security authorities and in peace in the country," she said, adding it was the 11th destruction of small arms throughout Cambodia by JSAC since 2003.
The ceremony was held while a workshop on small arms control by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is being held in Phnom Penh on a four-day schedule. It began Tuesday.
JSAC is a team for implementing the "Peace Building and Comprehensive Small Arms Management Program in Cambodia," established by the Japan International Cooperation System.
JSAC has conducted weapons collection and other peace building activities in northwest areas of Cambodia and is currently focusing on Battambang and Kompong Thom provinces.
The number of small arms collected through JSAC activities since 2003 has totaled 27,755.
Cambodia suffered more than two decades of civil war, during which weapons came from different overseas sources.
According to government data, some 206,122 weapons have been collected and destroyed in Cambodia since 1998.
Some 2,428 small arms, including rifles and handguns, were burned with help from the Japan Assistance Team for Small Arms Management in Cambodia in Kompong Thom Province, about 150 kilometers north of Phnom Penh.
Provincial Gov. Nam Yum presided over a ceremony called "Flame of Peace" and more than 1,000 people, including government officers, police and local residents attended.
"A large part of these weapons were voluntarily surrendered by residents in Kampong Thom Province, following appeals to surrender weapons to the authorities through various JSAC awareness-raising activities, such as workshops," Yukiko Murasaki, JSAC's project officer, said by phone.
"The destruction ceremony is expected to enhance the residents' confidence in the security authorities and in peace in the country," she said, adding it was the 11th destruction of small arms throughout Cambodia by JSAC since 2003.
The ceremony was held while a workshop on small arms control by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is being held in Phnom Penh on a four-day schedule. It began Tuesday.
JSAC is a team for implementing the "Peace Building and Comprehensive Small Arms Management Program in Cambodia," established by the Japan International Cooperation System.
JSAC has conducted weapons collection and other peace building activities in northwest areas of Cambodia and is currently focusing on Battambang and Kompong Thom provinces.
The number of small arms collected through JSAC activities since 2003 has totaled 27,755.
Cambodia suffered more than two decades of civil war, during which weapons came from different overseas sources.
According to government data, some 206,122 weapons have been collected and destroyed in Cambodia since 1998.
12 comments:
Let me know when they belong to Hun Sen's bodyguards.
that new weapons dude! and when they get old we will give to you and we buy news with oil money.
What do you think when you cannot convert a waste to a new product?
I have not seen CPP members can debate in a logical manner not to mention these thugs can carry intelligent debate.
Understand why Japanese help to destroy small arms? Because it can benefit to them. One of the smartest nation on earth, Japanese have always converted the wste to new products, such as converting small arms to new arms.
Yes true one get to spend money to buy new arms when one is so stupid and does not know how to transform that small arms to new arms.
What we need here is a tough gun
law.
Can the Cambodian Govtmt. breath without help or must Cambodian depend on foreign for everything?
Yes, 11:40PM Cambodian need support from foreigner after our sickness cause by the communist Pol Pot and Vietnamese from 1975 to 1992. But we do not get enought help and we still can not walk.
No, 11:40PM the Today Cambodia Govtmt deserve no help from foreigner because it never work for the country and people! At it never independent from its communist masters.
No, we can survive without help at
this moment. What about Ah Khmer-
Gringoes in Long Beach, can they,
11:40?
No they don't need to. Wellfair is OK so far.
Okay then, can you get us some
welfare from the US?
Oof course not! who are you us?
Hun Xen criminal?
Yuon louch trey?
Well then, we'll just have to
depend on International aids a
while longer. I think I estimated
that we'll no longed needed their
help after 2020.
Remember! Cambodia owed the fucken communist block over 3 billion dollars in buying these weapons and to see AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave burned these weapons will only give the fucken Vietcong and the Thaicong more confident to confront Cambodian people in the battle field!!!
If AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave government can't even find a fucken way to store these weapons in a safe place then Cambodia has such a long way to find peace and stability!
I have been to Cambodia numerous times and each time I observed how these Cambodian people live and build their houses! To my surprise I found that each house is surrounded by tall sharp fences and barbwires!! What does this telling me? It tells me that Cambodia under AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave had never experience peace or stability and even in 2007!!!
For AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave to burn a few hundred guns and put up a big banner with a statement “THE FLAME OF PEACE” was purely a fucken show! It just a fucken show!
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