Chea Vichea's memorial in 2008 (Photo: Reuters)19 Jan 2009
By Leang Delux
Cambodge Soir Hebdo
Translated from French by Tola Ek
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Rong Chhun, Director of the Cambodian Federation of Unions, will commemorate the 5th anniversary of Chea Vichea’s death on 22 January 2009.
In a communiqué, Rong Chhun announced his desire to bring a flower bouquet to the spot where union leader Chea Vichea was assassinated on Pasteur Street in Phnom Penh.
“I informed the city hall about this ceremony, and it did not reply yet,” Rong Chhun indicated. In spite of this fact, Rong Chhun promised to organize this ceremony and he will also issue a call to the court to find and bring to justice the real killers.
As in the previous years, he did not send particular invitations to anybody beyond making a general appeal for people to attend this ceremony. He noted also, that every year, a MP from the Sam Rainsy Party were always present in the ceremony, if not Sam Rainsy himself.
On 22 January 2004, Chea Vichea was shot in full daylight while he was reading in front of newspapers kiosks along Pasteur Street. The two men arrested and sentenced for the case were not recognized as the true killers by NGO representatives, nor by Chea Vichea’s family and not even by King-Father Norodom Sihanouk. Following 5 years of time spent in jail, the two men accused of the murder received their provisional release on 31 December 2008. The Supreme court send the case back to the Appeal court asking it to review this case.
In a communiqué, Rong Chhun announced his desire to bring a flower bouquet to the spot where union leader Chea Vichea was assassinated on Pasteur Street in Phnom Penh.
“I informed the city hall about this ceremony, and it did not reply yet,” Rong Chhun indicated. In spite of this fact, Rong Chhun promised to organize this ceremony and he will also issue a call to the court to find and bring to justice the real killers.
As in the previous years, he did not send particular invitations to anybody beyond making a general appeal for people to attend this ceremony. He noted also, that every year, a MP from the Sam Rainsy Party were always present in the ceremony, if not Sam Rainsy himself.
On 22 January 2004, Chea Vichea was shot in full daylight while he was reading in front of newspapers kiosks along Pasteur Street. The two men arrested and sentenced for the case were not recognized as the true killers by NGO representatives, nor by Chea Vichea’s family and not even by King-Father Norodom Sihanouk. Following 5 years of time spent in jail, the two men accused of the murder received their provisional release on 31 December 2008. The Supreme court send the case back to the Appeal court asking it to review this case.
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