Original report from Phnom Penh
05 August 2008
Two Cambodian customs officials were injured in a shooting by Cambodian soldiers at the Vietnam border Tuesday, after they tried to stop a truck smuggling construction equipment into Cambodia.
Kang Heap, 47, and Chan Chheang, 46, both received injuries, but neither of them was in critical condition, after they were beaten, kicked and accidentally shot by the soldiers, customs officials and border police said.
The two had tried to stop two trucks carrying construction goods at the Longky checkpoint, Bavet commune, Chantria district, Svay Rieng province.
The soldiers were identified as "Mr. Chheang" the son of a high-ranking military official in Phnom Penh, and "Mr. Chap."
Soy Samath, a border policeman in Svay Rieng, said an investigation would follow. No one has so far been arrested.
Tuesday's incident marked the first time Cambodian soldiers have been accused of shooting customs police in Svay Rieng.
Pan Simon, director of the customs department of the Ministry of Finance, could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
Kang Heap, 47, and Chan Chheang, 46, both received injuries, but neither of them was in critical condition, after they were beaten, kicked and accidentally shot by the soldiers, customs officials and border police said.
The two had tried to stop two trucks carrying construction goods at the Longky checkpoint, Bavet commune, Chantria district, Svay Rieng province.
The soldiers were identified as "Mr. Chheang" the son of a high-ranking military official in Phnom Penh, and "Mr. Chap."
Soy Samath, a border policeman in Svay Rieng, said an investigation would follow. No one has so far been arrested.
Tuesday's incident marked the first time Cambodian soldiers have been accused of shooting customs police in Svay Rieng.
Pan Simon, director of the customs department of the Ministry of Finance, could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
6 comments:
good. Shoot who ever enters Cambodia territory without regard to the law, even if its Hun Sen!
That's is pretty embarrassing.
Can we have the resignation of Mr. high-ranking military official???
Can Mr. Chheang an Mr. Chap go to prison???
Any objection Mr. Hun Sen???
Always true to your root. You're a disgrace to Cambodia.
i know, people have to respect the cambodian laws too for entering cambodia without properly being inspected or checked or what have you as border protocol calls for. maybe it's a case of soldier bribe or something because the custom police is probably just doing their job when the soldiers shoot them. anyway, soldier is there to protect the border, not doing the custom police's work. it's good that they will investigate this incidence as it seems odd for soldiers to get involved in custom police's job, let alone shooting at the custom police. someone should be reprimanded for this incidence.
just because the soldiers are related to someone higher up in phnom penh or whatever doesn't justify them to shoot at the custom police. there is law to protect everyone. someone's going to pay for this. law is law regardless of who they are related to. it is called justice for all khmer citizens. god bless cambodia.
Hun Sen it's time to show the people that you deserve to be a leader.
OK! Ok! I wait for my friend from Hanoi to telll me who should send to be jailed in Vietname!
Leave me alone I am thinking about the law to devide SRP seats!
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