Original report from Phnom Penh
02 January 2008
Officials from the Norodom Ranariddh Party on Wednesday called on the government to speed up its investigation into the alleged murder of a provincial activist.
Lun On, 41, was allegedly beaten to death by security personnel at a rubber plantation in Kampong Cham on the night of Dec. 30.
Human rights officials said he was killed for stealing rubber from the plantation, but NRP officials say he was taking rubber tree bark for cooking only.
There have been no arrests in the case so far.
Kompong Cham Police Chief Seng Sokim told VOA Khmer police had sent a report to the provincial court, and a decision was expected from the court.
"We have finished putting the case together," he said. "The case is under investigation."
Than Kim Hor, NRP acting secretary-general, said he did not believe the police had started an investigation.
"Even though the court has not indicted anyone, the police have the right to arrest and detain a suspect for up to 48 hours because a man died in this case," he said. "So this is a criminal case."
This was not the first time police failed to investigate the assault of an NRP activist, he said.
In March, a party activist was injured by a Cambodian People's Party district chief, and no one has been arrested so far, he said.
Lun On, 41, was allegedly beaten to death by security personnel at a rubber plantation in Kampong Cham on the night of Dec. 30.
Human rights officials said he was killed for stealing rubber from the plantation, but NRP officials say he was taking rubber tree bark for cooking only.
There have been no arrests in the case so far.
Kompong Cham Police Chief Seng Sokim told VOA Khmer police had sent a report to the provincial court, and a decision was expected from the court.
"We have finished putting the case together," he said. "The case is under investigation."
Than Kim Hor, NRP acting secretary-general, said he did not believe the police had started an investigation.
"Even though the court has not indicted anyone, the police have the right to arrest and detain a suspect for up to 48 hours because a man died in this case," he said. "So this is a criminal case."
This was not the first time police failed to investigate the assault of an NRP activist, he said.
In March, a party activist was injured by a Cambodian People's Party district chief, and no one has been arrested so far, he said.
4 comments:
Is Ah Hun Xen's law allowe to kill outside court in stealling?
See! what we get into UN?
A person is dead, and they need the court's order to make arrest? Is that how it works over there?
Cambodian policing, governing and justice is like a bunch of 10 year olds playing "beylap-beylau".
...that's all I have to say.
Sihanouk broke it, Sihanouk must fix it!
Get Sihanouk to back out of the not-so-secret deal he made with Hun Sen.
Get Sihanouk to denounce the Viet's vision of annexation of Cambodia.
Get Sihanouk back to be the father of the Nation by befriending with the West and the outside world, now that Vietnam has been re-united/unified.
Get Sihanouk back to be what he once was but with less or none of the Vietnamese and/or the Chinese.
After all, Sihanouk had been flipfopping all his life politically and after all, what is that humongous Embassy near Watt Phnom built for?
That's, in my honest opinion, how we can solve our beloved motherland's problem otherwise Khmer will never ever rid of the Viet's new and systematic yoke of colonialism.
No one political party will never ever be able to save Cambodia without Sihanouk whether it be united or otherwise!!!
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