Recently, Tuot Saron, the SRP commune chief from Baray district, Kampong Thom province was arrested by the police, after Mrs. Tim Norn, a former SRP party member who recently joined the CPP, complained that she was abducted and illegally detained in a house in Phnom Penh for several days.
Regarding this arrest, In Kong Chit, an investigator of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) said that, based on witnesses in the case, this is what he found out: “Tim Norn went to (SRP defector) Sok Pheng’s house, there, Sok Pheng’s wife gave her $200 to help influence other SRP activists to make them defect to the CPP. When Tim Norn received the money, she did not execute Sok Pheng’s wife order, instead she spent all the money, and she became concerned and wanted to re-join the SRP back. She escaped from her own home, and called a number of SRP officials whom she knew to help bring her to Phnom Penh.”
As it turned out, when Tim Norn first arrived in Phnom Penh in February, she recounted her story to SRP officials and her account was recorded. Tim Norn's story taped by the SRP clearly shows that she was manipulated by Sok Pheng and his wife, and that she was offered money to join the CPP. Click here to listen to Tim Norn's personal recounting of her ordeal in Khmer.
Regarding this arrest, In Kong Chit, an investigator of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) said that, based on witnesses in the case, this is what he found out: “Tim Norn went to (SRP defector) Sok Pheng’s house, there, Sok Pheng’s wife gave her $200 to help influence other SRP activists to make them defect to the CPP. When Tim Norn received the money, she did not execute Sok Pheng’s wife order, instead she spent all the money, and she became concerned and wanted to re-join the SRP back. She escaped from her own home, and called a number of SRP officials whom she knew to help bring her to Phnom Penh.”
As it turned out, when Tim Norn first arrived in Phnom Penh in February, she recounted her story to SRP officials and her account was recorded. Tim Norn's story taped by the SRP clearly shows that she was manipulated by Sok Pheng and his wife, and that she was offered money to join the CPP. Click here to listen to Tim Norn's personal recounting of her ordeal in Khmer.
