Six convicted over Cambodia's Water Festival bomb plot
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has handed down sentences of between six and 12 years in jail to six men over their alleged roles in a thwarted plot to bomb November's Water Festival celebrations, local media said on Friday.
Presiding judge Kim Ravy gave sentences of six years in prison to Neang Song, 38, Som Soth, 42, Pov Sam An, 46 and Saing Bunly, 45, reported English-language newspaper the Cambodian Daily.
Two men, Thach Hang and Prak Khan, were tried in absentia, each receiving sentences of 12 years. Two other men, Chan Rith, 47, and Luos Vanthan, 38, were acquitted.
"After deliberations in accordance with the law, there was one group having the intent to cause terrorism before and after the Water Festival. They really had the intent to do it," said Kim Ravy.
Three days before the 2006 Water Festival celebrations, authorities announced that in a sweep of arrests starting in late October, they had detained six suspects, mainly farmers from provinces like Kandal, Siem Reap, Battambang and Svay Rieng, and were seeking two others.
Details of the plot had remained scarce since the arrests.
Source: Xinhua
Presiding judge Kim Ravy gave sentences of six years in prison to Neang Song, 38, Som Soth, 42, Pov Sam An, 46 and Saing Bunly, 45, reported English-language newspaper the Cambodian Daily.
Two men, Thach Hang and Prak Khan, were tried in absentia, each receiving sentences of 12 years. Two other men, Chan Rith, 47, and Luos Vanthan, 38, were acquitted.
"After deliberations in accordance with the law, there was one group having the intent to cause terrorism before and after the Water Festival. They really had the intent to do it," said Kim Ravy.
Three days before the 2006 Water Festival celebrations, authorities announced that in a sweep of arrests starting in late October, they had detained six suspects, mainly farmers from provinces like Kandal, Siem Reap, Battambang and Svay Rieng, and were seeking two others.
Details of the plot had remained scarce since the arrests.
Source: Xinhua
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