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| Kratie market after the blaze (Photo: Or Phearith, RFA) |
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| Vendors, who lost their markets stalls in a fire in Kratie town, demonstrate outside the Prime Minister’s Phnom Penh home yesterday. (Photo by: Pha Lina) |
Friday, 03 June 2011
Mom Kunthear
The Phnom Penh Post
"An estimated 60 to 70 percent of goods and stalls [in the market] were completely destroyed by fire"
About 400 stalls at Kratie town’s market burned down yesterday in a blaze that vendors, many of whom have lost thousand of dollars worth of goods, fear could have been deliberately lit.
Military police chief of Kratie province Keo Chea said the fire started at about 12.45am yesterday and was extinguished by 8am with the help of two police fire engines and local residents.
“An estimated 60 to 70 percent of goods and stalls were completely destroyed by fire, but some of goods were taken from the fire in time,” he said.
Police, said Keo Chea, assume it was an electrical fire, as the market was closed when it began. “The authorities need to find a new place and build temporary stalls for them to sell. We will clean up this market again,” he added.
Some vendors, however, believe the blaze was arson and travelled to Phnom Penh yesterday to ask for Hun Sen’s help.
A representative for the stallholders, Ung Kimphoeun, said yesterday that the fire was started deliberately – rather than due to electric faults – as the market’s electricity supply was turned off at night.
Ung Kimphoeun, who lost an estimated US$50,000 worth of goods from his clothes stall in the fire, asked Prime Minister Hun Sen for help to build a new market and find the suspected culprits.
“We haven’t asked for help from the local authority because they have never solved the vendors’ problems,” he explained.
Tearful vendor Prak Chhroeun, who estimated she lost around US$10,000, said no one could help besides the Prime Minster. “Someone set fire to the market,” she said.
Chae Samath, Kratie town governor, said yesterday that vendors did not have to ask for intervention from Phnom Penh as the provincial authorities were finding them a temporary home – perhaps on land owned by tycoon Thai Bun Rong.
Hun Sen’s cabinet accepted the vendors’ submission for a new market.
12 comments:
Now the middle class Cambodians are going be poorer.
There are so many things going wrong in Cambodia.
You wonder who is really looking after the country?
Mr. Sam Rainsy is the sun that shine bright in all Cambodians heart and mind unlike PhD, Dr. Hun Sen murdered thousands khmer lives and cut off 30 000 km2 of Cambodia to Vietnam as personal gift.
So Who is the bad guy now?
Koh Tral Island must not be forgotten
By Ms. Rattana Keo
Why do Koh Tral Island, known in Vietnam as Phu Quoc, a sea and land area covering proximately over 30,000 km2 [Note: the actual land size of Koh Tral itself is 574 square kilometres (222 sq miles)] have been lost to Vietnam by whose treaty? Why don’t Cambodia government be transparent and explain to Cambodia army at front line and the whole nation about this? Why don't they include this into education system? Why?
Cambodian armies are fighting at front line for 4.6 km2 on the Thai border and what's about over 30,000km2 of Cambodia to Vietnam. Nobody dare to talk about it! Why? Cambodian armies you are decide the fate of your nation, Cambodian army as well as Cambodian people must rethink about this again and again. Is it fair?
Koh Tral Island, the sea and land area of over 30,000 square kilometres have been lost to Vietnam by the 1979 to 1985 treaties. The Cambodian army at front line as well as all Cambodian people must rethink again about these issues. Are Cambodian army fighting to protect the Cambodia Nation or protecting a very small group that own big lands, big properties or only protecting a small group but disguising as protecting the Khmer nation?
The Cambodian army at front lines suffer under rain, wind, bullets, bombs, lack of foods, lack of nutrition and their families have no health care assistance, no securities after they died but a very small group eat well, sleep well, sleep in first class hotel with air conditioning system with message from young girls, have first class medical care from oversea medical treatments, they are billionaires, millionaires who sell out the country to be rich and make the Cambodian people suffer everyday.
Who signed the treaty 1979-1985 that resulted in the loss over 30,000 km2 of Cambodia??? Why they are not being transparent and brave enough to inform all Cambodians and Cambodian army at front line about these issues? Why don't they include Koh Tral (Koh Tral size is bigger than the whole Phom Phen and bigger than Singapore [Note: Singapore's present land size is 704 km2 (271.8 sq mi)]) with heap of great natural resources, in the Cambodian education system?
Look at Hun Sen's families, relatives and friends- they are billionaires, millionaires. Where did they get the money from when we all just got out of war with empty hands [in 1979]? Hun Sen always say in his speeches that Cambodia had just risen up from the ashes of war, just got up from Year Zero with empty hands and how come they are billionaires, millionaires but 90% of innocent Cambodian people are so poor and struggling with their livelihood every day?
Smart Khmer girl Ms. Rattana Keo,
• At least four, and possibly up to 22 persons described as FUNCINPEC soldiers executed and cremated in Pich Nil on 9, 10 and 11 July 1997 by Military Region 3 soldiers. Status: Confirmed executions in at least 4 cases
• 34 to 36 (and possibly 45). On 17 July, at about noon time, the body of a soldier was witnessed floating near the bank of the Tone Bassac near the Watt Chum Leap, in the village of the same name, Rokakpong commune, Saang district, Kandal province. The body was headless and both hands were tied up behind the back with a kramma. It was dressed in dark olive military uniform
• 37 and 38. Two unidentified men, blindfolded and with their hands tied behind the back. Status: Confirmed executions
• Pheap, aged 33, a bodyguard of the First Prime Minister. Status: Confirmed execution.
• Sok Vanthorn, 21 and Sou Sal, two villagers from Ampeov village, Kompong Speu province. Status: Confirmed execution.
• Brig. Gen. Chea Rittichutt, a founding member of the Moulinaka movement and the Governor of Kep-Bokor
• Navy officer Meas Sarou, Deputy-director, First Bureau, Navy, based in Chrouy Changvar, and one of his body-guards, and a third person, a woman named Luch.
• Ung Sim, Second Deputy Governor, Kompong Speu province - missing since his arrest, reportedly near Pich Nil by CPP soldiers on 7 or 8 July 1997.
• Col. Sam Sarath, Deputy Chief-of-Staff, Third Military Region
• Put Som Ang, male, aged 42, a KNP activisit in Siem Reap province, and Sam Sophan, 38, an activist in Takeo province
• Major So Lay Sak and Major Chin Vannak, officers working in the Logisitics department of the RCAF General Staff
• Som Taing, Deputy Chief, Inspection Office, Provincial Governor's Office, Kompong Speu
• Chum Sarith, Chief, Criminal Bureau, Provincial Police, Sihanoukville
Forty-six bodies were brought in and dumped at the crematorium of a Phnom Penh pagoda between 5 and 9 July
In the case of Ho Sok (executed on 7 July, brought to Watt Lanka on 8 July); of Seng Phally, Chao Keang, Chao Tea and Thong Viccheka (executed on 5-6 July and brought by the police to Wat Unalom on the morning of 7 July - see cases number 13-16 above) and in the case of a fifth corpse which was brought to the same pagoda on the same morning, but which could not be identified, the police ordered that cremation of the bodies be conducted without question and without proper cremation permit.
Between 9 and 11 July, according to a variety of reliable corroborating accounts, the bodies of 4 and probably up to 22 soldiers were alleged to have been executed in Pich Nil and burned
Plus many and many more names with lose count that order and executed by Hun Sen and CPP.
the way i see it, it's time for cambodian people to upgrade their market place to more modern, not like shanty town to save money or whatever they're thinking, really! i think all markets in cambodia should be required to be build in concrete structure, not thatch roof or shanty looking, really. it's time to upgrade for sure!
we've see the same thing happened in pursat market, now pursat got a nice, concrete structure market, and in no time, kratie will get the same, i think!
well, it also shows people are still ignorant and unchanged for centuries. i think cambodia ought to have people manage and build things more modern, etc, etc... i hate cambodia being lack of due to uneducation, and not wanted to spend money to improve things, people seems to want everything for free. well, if you don't invest in your own community, this is what comes around eventually, so all a learning experience for all, really! time to have some mentality or thinking change, really! you are what you eat, really!
11:39 PM,
You seem to have great ideas about changes in Cambodia, but expressing them here only torments you even more as most people who come to this site share your frustration.
You need to find way to send your idea about changes and education to Mr. Hun Sen and the CPP; however, the problem is they may not listen to you or implement what you offer as a free advice since they think they are very well educated, even more educated than you as their PhD degrees on the wall clearly show!
Someone pissed off! They burn the market, they want to build a new one like in Phnom Penh city...
correction= they want government to build them a new one like in Phnom Penh city...Phsar Thmey!
the market was "smork roak" or dirty, they have to upgrade it, you know!
i think all market places in cambodia should be good lighting, clean running water, restrooms, etc, etc, ok! it's time to upgrade, really!
i heard france is looking to upgrade psar chas and psar kandal in phnom penh too as these two market looks almost like shanty town in the middle of phnom penh. i think it's good news for khmer people. th
anyway, they should are going to rebuild kratie market into nice concrete structure with good sanitation, protection from the rain, etc... all good news for khmer people, really. god bless cambodia.
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