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Shooting in Bavet at PUMA supplier ‘unintentional’
May Titthara and David Boyle
Friday, 20 April 2012
The Phnom Penh Post
Chhouk Bandith, the deposed Bavet town governor accused of shooting a woman through the chest and injuring two others during a garment factory protest, was yesterday charged with causing “unintentional injuries”, a court official said.
Pech Chhoeut, director of Svay Rieng provincial court, said the investigating judge had charged Chhouk Bandith over the February shooting at Kaoway Sports factory, a supplier to PUMA, after receiving his case from provincial prosecutor Hing Bun Chea.
“Chhouk Bandith was charged with causing unintentional injuries,” Pech Chhoeut said before declining to say whether an arrest warrant would be issued.
More than 6,000 workers from four factories in the Manhattan special economic zone protested outside the factory on February 20, demanding higher wages and better working conditions.
The protest descended into chaos when a man, alleged to be Chhouk Bandith, opened fire on the crowd, shooting Buot Chenda, 21, in the chest and injuring Keo Near, 18, and Nuth Sakhorn, 23.
Nuth Sakhorn said yesterday she was shocked the provincial court had charged Chhouk Bandith with causing only unintentional injuries.
“The court knows already that Chhouk Bandith shot us,” she said. “Why has the court charged him like this? They should punish him more seriously than this.”
Minister of Interior Sar Kheng publicly identified Chhouk Bandith as the shooter on March 1, but Hing Bun Chea decided against issuing a warrant for his arrest and summonsed him to court for questioning instead.
Chhouk Bandith was later sacked as governor and allegedly confessed in the provincial court on March 15 to the shootings before walking free.
Cambodian Center for Human Rights president Ou Virak said the charge laid yesterday was “nowhere near” giving justice to the victims and their families.
“It was certainly not unintentional, the fact that he walked out of his car and fired into a protest, and there were thousands of people at the protest,” he said.
“Certainly I am disappointed, but I am not surprised given the many, many cases of impunity in this country.
“People using firearms shooting into a crowd should be charged with a much, much more serious crime and should be punished accordingly.”
Phil Robertson, deputy director of Human Rights Watch’s Asia division, said Chhouk Bandith’s arrest was another test for impunity in Cambodia and called on prosecutors to revise the charges to reflect what had happened.
“My response would be that on one hand, we’re happy he has been charged with anything, given the Cambodian justice system,” Robertson said.
“The fact he is being charged despite his influence is also in some ways important.
“[But] it’s important that he is charged with the correct charge, and if the prosecutors had spoken with witnesses from the actual incident, they probably would have been able to tell more clearly whether it was unintentional or intentional.”
Sok Sam Oeun, executive director of the Cambodian Defenders Project, said the shooting had been a deliberate attack on unarmed protesters.
“One of the victims was shot in the breast,” he said. “She had no gun – this is attempted murder.”
Hing Bun Chea would not confirm the details of the charge when contacted yesterday.
“I have already charged him,” he said.
Chhouk Bandith could not be reached for comment yesterday.
17 comments:
WTF?
“Chhouk Bandith was charged with causing unintentional injuries,”
If it was unintentional he should have known better by aiming his shots into the air, and that court official must have got his toilet paper diploma without attending school.
As I said before, the only way to get justice in this case is to shoot this guy dead or shoot him three times: one in the head, if he's still alive shoot him again in the penis and if he's still alive, shoot him right in the right asshole.
5:59 PM
It is easy said then done when Chhouk Bandith has many guns and you don’t any.
c'est un tribunal de hun sen et bun rani les docteurs sans ecole+les docteurs sauvages dans la jugle.LE TRIBUNAL DE L'INJUSTICE CAMBODGIEN+LE TRIBUNAI POUR LA MODE D'UN VOYOU HUN SEN MR CRIMMINEL LE K5 DU VIET NAM EST PUR ET SIMPLE
He has lost his sense of good judgment. Angry led to frustration, then when frustrated and desparated, his organizational and problem solving skills are blurred, along with poor insight and judgment with having gun and power on hands, here come the shooting.
He adopted the model of quick fix from his boss in phonm penh.
The sound of gun is speak louder than words.
It was either "unintentional injury" or "intentional murder". At the time of shooting he may aim the gun to the heads of workers but the bullets hit the chests instead. So it was an "unintentional injury" while the "intentional murder" was failed.
It is quite disturbing, to say the least, when prosecutor and investing judge work more like a defense lawyer. With this kind of judicial system in place, Cambodia and the Cambodian people will have to brace for a very long absent of social justice. Sad, sad, and sad to see only the power abusers and the cowards run the country.
Yes, I knew it. I knew that day, He was going for hunting and accidentally the crowd running across him and he confuse them with the deer so he shoot few bullets but as he run closer he realized that he shoot girls. So,,,,,,That's totally unintentional.....
Lok ..8:23 PM
Ils n'ont pas d'école ,mais ils ont l'école pour les chiens !
LOCK THIS MOTHERFUCKER UP
My comment here is not related to this topic. I don`t know how to send you the comments, so that why I use this way to send. I just one KI and other colleagues knowing about a bad news related to Thai Red Shirt group.
According to the credible source, Thai red shirt group had made traffic accident during their return. Their car had hit khmer people in Pouk area, they killed 1 khmer and injured few people but the police hadn`t stop their just allow them to go back to Thailnd freely. We are like animal.
My comment here is not related to this topic. I don`t know how to send you the comments, so that why I use this way to send. I just one KI and other colleagues knowing about a bad news related to Thai Red Shirt group.
According to the credible source, Thai red shirt group had made traffic accident during their return. Their car had hit khmer people in Pouk area, they killed 1 khmer and injured few people but the police hadn`t stop their just allow them to go back to Thailnd freely. We are like animal.
The expansionist Vietnam spreads injustice, poverty in Khmer society in order to shift the people attention from its dominance in Cambodia such as the mass influx of its citizens into Cambodia, the exploitation of our natural resource, the encroachment of our territorial and maritime borders, etc...
In short, Vietnam wants Khmer people to be preoccupied with “stomach problem" only.
Who protects that criminal Chhouk Bandit? The answer is absolutely the CPP’s member. The CPP members are Yuon’s slave. So, Vietnam has never wanted Cambodia to solve any social problems. Vietnam makes Khmer hate each other.
For example in this Chhouk Bandit’s case. This hypocrite Vietnam must get out of Cambodia.
what i found disturbing is that it took him this long to say that it was "unintentional"? something fishy is out there, i think. well, good thing he was stripped of his governorship position, from there, the victims should start suing this unprofessional major of bavet. after all, cambodia needs a good case scenerio for law students to look into. that's how law student learn to think, evaluate, etc. be smart, everyone!
អាគុកមួយក្បាលនេះគួរតែដាក់ឈ្មោះថា៖ អា ឈូក
ងងឹត ទើបសម ពីព្រោះវាជាឃាតករនិងជាឧក្រិដ្ឋជនហើយត្រូវជាប់មួយជីវិតឬយកទៅបាញ់ចោល!!!!!!!
គួរតែដាក់ឈ្មោះវាថា ៖
អា គុក ងងឹត ទើបសម !
He has to be assassinated. An eye for an eye, a bullet for a bullet that's the Cambodian style of justice. How about $10,000 for his his head? We can raise money for the assassin.
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