Original report from Phnom Penh
07 February 2008
Ten workers were injured when a factory owner’s car slammed into a group of protestors at the order of a local commune chief, labor representatives said Thursday.
The workers of King Land factory in Phnom Penh have called on the government to intervene in the case, which reportedly injured 10 workers.
The unnamed driver moved the car into a crowd of workers demonstrating over annual bonuses and layoffs, representatives said.
Chak Angre Commune Chief Chea Sokhay ordered the driver to hit the workers, said In Kong Chet, an investigator for the Cambodian Center for Human Rights.
“We expect the commune chief’s presence to facilitate and seek an appropriate solution to avoid violence,” In Kong Chet said. “Not let the car hit the workers.”
Chea Sokhay denied ordering the car to hit the workers.
“Conflict resolution depends on the court and a referee, and I just tried to facilitate,” he said.
Keo Pisey, a laborer at the factory, said workers were not treated as humans.
“That is why they hit us like we are dogs,” she said.
The workers of King Land factory in Phnom Penh have called on the government to intervene in the case, which reportedly injured 10 workers.
The unnamed driver moved the car into a crowd of workers demonstrating over annual bonuses and layoffs, representatives said.
Chak Angre Commune Chief Chea Sokhay ordered the driver to hit the workers, said In Kong Chet, an investigator for the Cambodian Center for Human Rights.
“We expect the commune chief’s presence to facilitate and seek an appropriate solution to avoid violence,” In Kong Chet said. “Not let the car hit the workers.”
Chea Sokhay denied ordering the car to hit the workers.
“Conflict resolution depends on the court and a referee, and I just tried to facilitate,” he said.
Keo Pisey, a laborer at the factory, said workers were not treated as humans.
“That is why they hit us like we are dogs,” she said.
4 comments:
if there is enough evidence (take picture of the driver and who else is in thatcar, and of course the license plate) get a good lawyer (local or foreign)and sue that company. maybe this will teach them a lesson not to take law in their own hands.
are you kidding 3:46, Cambodia have no law at all. All Cambodian cop is mongkey see mongkee do.
That it.
I can't believe that AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave government allowed the fucken Vietcong slave thuggish officials to use car as a fucken weapon to kill Cambodian people!
Now I understand the fucken reason why Cambodia has such a high traffic fatality due to car accident because AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave government sanctioned the fucken cars to be used as a fucken weapon!
From now on Cambodia can be killed by AK-47 or by cars!
It is more than usually heard and seen. What can we do friends to save our Khmer. Lawyer in the hand of rich people, I think if workers should find where the boss and people involved live and then, burn their house to the ground. When your back again the wall, you must fight back.
Kon Khmer
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