Original report from Phnom Penh
23 March 2010
Local rights groups on Tuesday urged the government to quickly establish a law against acid attacks, a brutal form of retribution that is common in the country.
The government has formed a committee to draft acid legislation that could include specific punishments for perpetrators but could also regulate the sale of acid, commonly used to refill car batteries.
Attacks with disfiguring acid are often undertaken by the jealous wives against the mistresses of their powerful husbands.
The attacks have “become an increasingly common form of violence in Cambodia in recent years,” according to the rights group Licadho.
Acid is “typically inexpensive and readily available on the open market” and “almost invisible to the police and the public,” the group says on it Web site.
“Thus far, law enforcement and the judiciary have done little to curtail these cruel and tragic attacks,” the group says.
The government has formed a committee to draft acid legislation that could include specific punishments for perpetrators but could also regulate the sale of acid, commonly used to refill car batteries.
Attacks with disfiguring acid are often undertaken by the jealous wives against the mistresses of their powerful husbands.
The attacks have “become an increasingly common form of violence in Cambodia in recent years,” according to the rights group Licadho.
Acid is “typically inexpensive and readily available on the open market” and “almost invisible to the police and the public,” the group says on it Web site.
“Thus far, law enforcement and the judiciary have done little to curtail these cruel and tragic attacks,” the group says.
6 comments:
Acid attackers, the copy cats. As soon as they are caught red handed, allow the street mobs club them to death and fine their relative heavily.
punish the perpetrators by pouring acid back on them.
khmer people help to look out for each other by photo graph the perpetrators. and be witnesses to the attack, etc... this way, the bad guys will be caught and be brought to justice! it's never right to abuse and do harm to other by pouring acid or whatever! i think if khmer society all stand up for each other, the law will punish the cruel ones! don't forget, nowadays, even your cell phones have camera built in them, please use to the help our society become better. don't let the evil people get away like this. all help to catch them!
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Nuon Chea
Ieng Sary
Ta Mok
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Hor Namhong
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Committed:
Tortures
Brutality
Executions
Massacres
Mass Murder
Genocide
Atrocities
Crimes Against Humanity
Starvations
Slavery
Force Labour
Overwork to Death
Human Abuses
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
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Members:
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
Committed:
Attempted Murders
Attempted Murder on Chea Vichea
Attempted Assassinations
Attempted Assassination on Sam Rainsy
Assassinations
Assassinated Journalists
Assassinated Political Opponents
Assassinated Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Assassinated over 80 members of Sam Rainsy Party.
"But as of today, over eighty members of my party have been assassinated. Countless others have been injured, arrested, jailed, or forced to go into hiding or into exile."
Sam Rainsy LIC 31 October 2009 - Cairo, Egypt
Executions
Executed over 100 members of FUNCINPEC Party
Murders
Murdered 3 Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Murdered Chea Vichea
Murdered Ros Sovannareth
Murdered Hy Vuthy
Murdered Journalists
Murdered Khim Sambo
Murdered Khim Sambo's son
Murdered members of Sam Rainsy Party.
Murdered activists of Sam Rainsy Party
Murdered Innocent Men
Murdered Innocent Women
Murdered Innocent Children
Killed Innocent Khmer Peoples.
Extrajudicial Execution
Grenade Attack
Terrorism
Drive by Shooting
Brutalities
Police Brutality Against Monks
Police Brutality Against Evictees
Tortures
Intimidations
Death Threats
Threatening
Human Abductions
Human Abuses
Human Rights Abuses
Human Trafficking
Drugs Trafficking
Under Age Child Sex
Corruptions
Bribery
Embezzlement
Treason
Border Encroachment, allow Vietnam to encroaching into Cambodia.
Signed away our territories to Vietnam; Koh Tral, almost half of our ocean territory oil field and others.
Illegal Arrest
Illegal Mass Evictions
Illegal Land Grabbing
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Illegal Deforestation
Illegally use of remote detonation bomb on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and other military officials were on board.
Lightning strike many airplanes, but did not fall from the sky. Lightning strike out side of airplane and discharge electricity to ground.
Source: Lightning, Discovery Channel
Illegally Sold State Properties
Illegally Removed Parliamentary Immunity of Parliament Members
Plunder National Resources
Acid Attacks
Turn Cambodia into a Lawless Country.
Oppression
Injustice
Steal Votes
Bring Foreigners from Veitnam to vote in Cambodia for Cambodian People's Party.
Use Dead people's names to vote for Cambodian People's Party.
Disqualified potential Sam Rainsy Party's voters.
Abuse the Court as a tools for CPP to send political opponents and journalists to jail.
Abuse of Power
Abuse the Laws
Abuse the National Election Committee
Abuse the National Assembly
Violate the Laws
Violate the Constitution
Violate the Paris Accords
Impunity
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Death in custody.
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