Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy declared that he hopes that, in 2009, the assassins involved in the grenade attack on demonstrators on 30 March 1997, will be arrested because, for the past 11-year, the authority was never able to put its hands on these assassins. In a speech given during the commemoration of the 11th anniversary of the grenade attack on demonstrators in front of the National Assembly on 30 March 2008, Sam Rainsy said that this is the last year because in the past 11-year, the government was not able to arrest the culprits, but that in 2009, it must arrest these assassins and bring them to face justice. Sam Rainsy hopes that the FBI will contribute to make the arrest. He added that the FBI has sufficient evidence, and that it is only waiting for the election of a new US President in 2008 to make the FBI report public. Khieu Kanharith, government spokesman, said that the government is still looking for the real assassins, but the SRP does not want to show the actual proof, and the government wants the SRP to confirm about this issue.
