18 December 2007By Sav Yuth Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
A Sam Rainsy Party activist in Prasat Sambo district, Kampong Thom province, claimed in the afternoon of Monday 17 December that one of the party members living in Kauk Srok village, Taing Krosao commune, was shot and killed by an unknown assailant.
Sok Kheng, the SRP working group chairman for the Prasat Sambo district, said that 47-year-old Kan Siem, a party supporter, was shot by an unknown assailant at about 4:30 AM on Monday, when she left her home to go cook for students at a nearby school.
SRP activists call this murder a political assassination.
Sok Kheng said: “They shot her three times, one bullet pierced her chest all the way to her back and hit her arm and broke it, her head was shattered (by a bullet) and they also shot her mouth, her lips are all torn into pieces.”
However, Phon Toch, the (CPP) Taing Krosao commune chief, came out to reject this fact immediately, saying that this was not a political killing, but that it was a revenge killing stemming from a land dispute, and he claimed that Kan Siem was not a SRP party member, but rather a CPP group leader instead.
Commune police all the way to the provincial police commissioner still cannot provide any clear explanation about this assassination.
Kim An, the deputy police commissioner of Kampong Thom province, said that he did not hear about this information yet and he also pushed (RFA) to go ask the Prasat Sambo police commissioner instead: “The shooting and killing took place in Prasat Sambo, go ask at Prasat Sambo.”
7 surviving family members of the victim expressed their concerns about their daily safety, claiming that in the past 7 years, 3 members of their family were shot and killed by unknown assailants, and no one knows why.
Thon Vy, the fifth daughter of the victim, said that all 8 of her family members are SRP card holders, and her father, her older brother, and her mother were successively shot and killed one after another.
Thon Vy said: “Three already died: my older brother, someone shot and killed him, my father was shot and killed in 1998.”
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy said that this savage killing is due to political hatred, and he called on the authority to search for the assassins and bring them to face justice.
Sam Rainsy said: “This is a political violence because they saw that the SRP is becoming very popular, and more people are supporting the SRP.”
According to a SRP party official, since 1995 until 2007, 75 party members and activists were killed, and in the majority of the cases, the culprits were never found and brought to justice.
Sok Kheng, the SRP working group chairman for the Prasat Sambo district, said that 47-year-old Kan Siem, a party supporter, was shot by an unknown assailant at about 4:30 AM on Monday, when she left her home to go cook for students at a nearby school.
SRP activists call this murder a political assassination.
Sok Kheng said: “They shot her three times, one bullet pierced her chest all the way to her back and hit her arm and broke it, her head was shattered (by a bullet) and they also shot her mouth, her lips are all torn into pieces.”
However, Phon Toch, the (CPP) Taing Krosao commune chief, came out to reject this fact immediately, saying that this was not a political killing, but that it was a revenge killing stemming from a land dispute, and he claimed that Kan Siem was not a SRP party member, but rather a CPP group leader instead.
Commune police all the way to the provincial police commissioner still cannot provide any clear explanation about this assassination.
Kim An, the deputy police commissioner of Kampong Thom province, said that he did not hear about this information yet and he also pushed (RFA) to go ask the Prasat Sambo police commissioner instead: “The shooting and killing took place in Prasat Sambo, go ask at Prasat Sambo.”
7 surviving family members of the victim expressed their concerns about their daily safety, claiming that in the past 7 years, 3 members of their family were shot and killed by unknown assailants, and no one knows why.
Thon Vy, the fifth daughter of the victim, said that all 8 of her family members are SRP card holders, and her father, her older brother, and her mother were successively shot and killed one after another.
Thon Vy said: “Three already died: my older brother, someone shot and killed him, my father was shot and killed in 1998.”
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy said that this savage killing is due to political hatred, and he called on the authority to search for the assassins and bring them to face justice.
Sam Rainsy said: “This is a political violence because they saw that the SRP is becoming very popular, and more people are supporting the SRP.”
According to a SRP party official, since 1995 until 2007, 75 party members and activists were killed, and in the majority of the cases, the culprits were never found and brought to justice.
2 comments:
This blood sucker government continues to kill the innocent nonstop. They try to threaten/assasinate our compatriot from defending our poor people. However we are not going to hault our passion for our beloved countrymen. This coward action will only increase the will of people to serve their fellow citizen more and more. This will only cause more hatred. Long Live SRP!!! We will always support you to the end. Down CPP, Communist PUTRID Party!!!
Who else have the guns beside AH HUN SEN thuggish officials?
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