Mob attack in Phnom Penh (Photo: Koh Santepheap)30 March 2010
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
During a press conference, Hem Dararith, the deputy district governor of Dangkao, told reporters that he is asking the public to stop using their anger to beat up and kill the culprits outside the court system because Cambodia’s Constitution stipulates that there should not be death penalty. Hem Dararith made this declaration during a press conference held on 29 March 2010 at the Dangkao district police station when the authority was putting on display one the culprits who escaped death from a motorcycle robbery. Prior to the killing, the three thieves robbed a new motorcycle from two sisters on 25 March 2010. Hem Dararith told the public that, if such incident takes place again and should the public arrest the perpetrators, they should turn the culprits to the authority so that they can be dealt with the law and let the law decides the case, the public should not perform anything illegal.
yes, it's a fair warning by authority. people have to know the law and should not take the law into their own hands, really! we are trying to educate everyone to be civilized. if we let our anger take over, it is in itself injustice, so, yes, let the authority deal with them by the law. remember our nation have law and let the law decide, not anger.
ReplyDeleteThe reason people take the law in their own hands because they don't trust the Court anymore. The same crimes have been committed by the same peooe again and again , they are fed up with it . I don't blame them for doing it because it's the signal to others not to do it or they will get the same thing.
ReplyDeleteInjustice breeds popular anger and it will subside only when justice will be applied equally to all. Cambodia is a lawless country and lynching is but a symptom of this.
ReplyDeleteIn Cambodia you can be killed for stealing an orange but if you kill one person or several hundred thousand people you can have a nice villa, a Lexus, money and protection.
In order to educate the public that they should not take the law into their own hands, the authorities should now charge one or two persons in the crowd for some crime (maybe for hurting others) not amounting to manslaughter.
ReplyDeleteTo many Cambodian this kind of mob justice is the only way they can get thing done. Police and court system are corrupted, rotten to the bones. If they turn criminals over to the police, a few days later, for some bribery, the court will let them go free to repeat their action again, preying on innocent people. Why do the government institutions expect their citizens to respect "law" while everybody with power or money doesn't give a damn about it? A few days ago a so-called one-star general pulled out his gun and shot a tuk-tuk driver after a trafic incident that nobody get hurt at all. After the shooting, someone got hurt: the tuk-tuk driver. Everyone is for him/herself as long as they can get away with it. The people on top should set example for the little people but; will that happen? I don't think so as long as the poor country is run by the CPP that is corrupted, anachic from the top (PM Hun Sen) to the lower core in local villages. We really need reform, a really good reform, not like the one introduced by the KR who destroy the whole country and as a consequence created one of the most corrupted government in the world.
ReplyDeleteTo me I understand in this way.
ReplyDeleteSometime we agree with the constitution that there should not be any death penalty. However, one question need to be answered?
What do you think for a person who is ridding a motorbike and suddenly is shootted by the robber? Why he has to be died? Sometime, the person who is shooted by the robber is an educated people and who is giving benefit to the nation. While the robber is still survive and accumulated to the nation.
I don't claim that all the case is the same but sometime it makes think in this way. I really support for China's rule. It is a communy rule but it works to me. You will be died if you commited a serious case.
Anyway, it is just what I think to be fair for the people in the society. It is better to keep the other person rather than robber. Robber will never bring benefit to the country but not the case of other. Robber knows how to kill person only. There is no good result at the end only country losses resources.
To me I understand in this way.
ReplyDeleteSometime we agree with the constitution that there should not be any death penalty. However, one question need to be answered?
What do you think for a person who is ridding a motorbike and suddenly is shootted by the robber? Why he has to be died? Sometime, the person who is shooted by the robber is an educated people and who is giving benefit to the nation. While the robber is still survive and accumulated to the nation.
I don't claim that all the case is the same but sometime it makes think in this way. I really support for China's rule. It is a communy rule but it works to me. You will be died if you commited a serious case.
Anyway, it is just what I think to be fair for the people in the society. It is better to keep the other person rather than robber. Robber will never bring benefit to the country but not the case of other. Robber knows how to kill person only. There is no good result at the end only country losses resources.
maybe people are fed up with incompetent authority, so they are doing this to send a message loud and clear that crime of any sort is unacceptable. i think it's a democratic process in the working, however, authority will wake up and step up the efford to curb crime, etc... i think it is good that people are sending a message loud and clear to authority that if they do change their way (reformed), they should step aside and let other capable people take charge. hey, cambodia is not lawless like some think; it looks chaos in the process, but it's not lawless if you look closely. wake up already! there are more to cambodia than you and i, ok!
ReplyDeletehowever, violence don't solve violence, though! instead citizens should help to arrest the culprit, then turn them in to authority, and if authority failed to take justice, then use that as an excuse to take more drastic action next time; that's fair. maybe authority needs education as well! wake up already for a change, really!
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Son Sen
Ieng Thearith
Kaing Kek Iev
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
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."
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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
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Drive by Shooting
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Police Brutality Against Evictees
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Under Age Child Sex
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Bribery
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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.
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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.
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Abuse the Laws
Abuse the National Election Committee
Abuse the National Assembly
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Impunity
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Death in custody.
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