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Phnom Penh - The teenage son of a slain Cambodian opposition party journalist has died in hospital from gunshot wounds, police said Saturday, after he and his father were attacked in an apparent assassination attempt just weeks before national elections. Khim Sambo, 47, a senior scribe for the Khmer-language Moneakseka Khmer daily, was pronounced dead at the scene and his son, Sarin Thida, 19, died later in hospital after Friday evening's attack.
Police said the pair was returning from exercising at the capital's busy Olympic Stadium when two men on a motorbike approached and fired five rounds from a K-59 pistol at close range.
Khim Sambo, initially named by police at the scene as Khim Sam Ol, worked for the pro-Sam Rainsy paper for 11 years but his beat remained unclear as Cambodian journalists habitually use pseudonyms.
A board member for the powerful Club of Cambodian Journalists, which has condemned the killings, said Sambo was previously an associate of slain journalists Thun Bun Ly and Nuon Chan.
Both of those men were also working for pro-Sam Rainsy publications when they were shot dead in 1996 and 1994 respectively.
However, despite recent controversy surrounding Sambo's paper, whose editor Dam Sith was last month charged with defamation against a senior government minister and jailed for a week, police urged caution in attributing political blame for the murders.
Cambodia is scheduled to hold national elections on July 27 and the pre-election period has historically been fraught with violence, but police said it was also a popular time to act on personal disputes in the hope politics would be blamed.
Information Minister and former journalist Khieu Kanharith attended a service for Sambo and his son Saturday morning.
Police said the pair was returning from exercising at the capital's busy Olympic Stadium when two men on a motorbike approached and fired five rounds from a K-59 pistol at close range.
Khim Sambo, initially named by police at the scene as Khim Sam Ol, worked for the pro-Sam Rainsy paper for 11 years but his beat remained unclear as Cambodian journalists habitually use pseudonyms.
A board member for the powerful Club of Cambodian Journalists, which has condemned the killings, said Sambo was previously an associate of slain journalists Thun Bun Ly and Nuon Chan.
Both of those men were also working for pro-Sam Rainsy publications when they were shot dead in 1996 and 1994 respectively.
However, despite recent controversy surrounding Sambo's paper, whose editor Dam Sith was last month charged with defamation against a senior government minister and jailed for a week, police urged caution in attributing political blame for the murders.
Cambodia is scheduled to hold national elections on July 27 and the pre-election period has historically been fraught with violence, but police said it was also a popular time to act on personal disputes in the hope politics would be blamed.
Information Minister and former journalist Khieu Kanharith attended a service for Sambo and his son Saturday morning.
16 comments:
I remember the movie Terminator has a lot of shooting from motorcycle. Therefore, this is definitely linked to Long Beach; which in turn will make Ah Savage Infidel Scam Rainxy a prime suspect.
4:05 PM....hahaha, you are such a loser. Get yourself back to reality you idiotic monkey. Man, you make yourself sound so dumb...no wonder you are a follower of ah kwak Hun Xen. Only stupid people like you worship Hun Xen.
I'm not a follower or supporter of the CPP, but damn, you make the CPP look really stupid.
4:05 PM ,get yourself out of that HOLE and get some education if you will ,dude .
What ever come out of your dirthy mouth sound very STUPID and nonsense.
May lightning strikes ah kwack fore head at noon time........
4:05 PM , we all know that only you in this blogge , you so fucking stupit , event a child are are a lot smarter then you ... you post a lot of stupit comment , but this is too stupit to see your barbaric comment a gaint the lose of other family , I wish this is happnd to your familys and you , I think it will happend...
DEAD TO IDOIT LIKE YOU 4:05 PM.
I am neutral from all political parties, but please tell me who really has guns in Cambodia today? And who has the power to kill people today really!!!Have we ever heard a CPP member get killed so far???
I have so far seen the killings only coming from the journalists, the opposition members, and the singers.
And then ah Khieu Kanharith is acting like he knows nothing about it, and so the do the police forces. It is all the acting jobs for the CPPs. Like the original person said referring to a Hollywood movie "Terminator", it is all about acting by the CPPs. To kill someone, HUN SEN plays as a "DIRECTOR", while other CPPs watch and enjoy the actions of killing innocent Khmers!
No wonder, bros. He's just one of Hun Xen's dogs.
Hun Sen will be depost by someone close to him. No man can rule forever, especially Kindergarten CPPs!
Khmers are not safe anywhere because we don't have the government that works for the interest of the country and her citizens. Khmer who live around the boarder continually being harrassed/abuse by Youns/Siamese/& perhaps Laotians. what does Hun "lit khdoi" do to alieve the hardship? Nothing, but inflict more pain by stealing lands from the people.
Khmers are not safe. Now, if Thais products are tainted with toxic chemical to harm consumers, then why are shelving products from Thais? Toothpaste from China contained Anti-freeze and paints contained Lead(Pb), and that's toxic. Benzene, an aromatic ring compound ? found in Soy sauce from Vietname cause birth defects.
We are not going to safe or protect anything in Cambodia, unless the Government can take criticism from citizens and accept mistakes publicly. And crucially working for the common cause of the Country!
all that affected to Hor NamHon because Court and public writer.
It's hard to know because for a small sum of money you can have someone shot. Because he was a journalist, it's possible it could be tied to something he wrote, but more often than not, the motive for these drive by shooting is over money, or girls.
"Anonymous said...I remember the movie Terminator has a lot of shooting from motorcycle. Therefore, this is definitely linked to Long Beach; which in turn will make Ah Savage Infidel Scam Rainxy a prime suspect.4:05"
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Shut up, mather f*cker, you are the one has been pretending to be Khmer Issan, you stupid mather f*cker. Because you spell the word Issan as "Issan" not as "Esan like the Thai people do. Hahah. You also use the word "infidel" to describe the Cambodians and their kings. Hahha. You are one sick bastard who continues to bash the leadership of the Sam Rainsy Party. Hahhah. You are the one who claim that the Khmer Issan people were the ones that built Preah Vihear Temple. Ah lop. Hahha. You stupid mather f*cker. I bet you are still living with your pathetic family and masterbate your short dick with your hand every day, ah pler. The victim in the article works for the Sam Rainsy Party so why ah lop kone mee sompeng eng accuse Sam Rainsy as the killer of the victim, ah pler. You are the one who pretends to be ah Khmer Issan and then uses the word "savage" on the Cambodians. You are one sick bastard. If I know where you are, mather f*cker, you will be arrested for causing trouble in the society or neighborhood without due facts. F*ck you and your damned family members, azzhole. You must be one of those losers who can even make the grade in school and now has to end up homeless and jobless and has to live like a parasite off somebody. Ah Pler.
11:48,
How did you come about a conclusion that the murder of this journalist is tied to money and affair? Your conclusion is baseless! These men were shot at close range. If money/affair was related, then what's the need to kill his son? This assassinations is a work of a journalist who is too close to exlpoit the truth. Go and inspect the Cee Pee Pee's hand, you will find blood all over it.
This idiotic 4:05 is one ignorant fuck! He must be a specimen of Ah Kvack!
Who's ignorant? Why don't look at yourself in the mirror, stupid!
shut the fuck up an ignorant 12:54am motherfucker
Let's justice serves the fool!
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