Kong Sothanarith, VOA Khmer | Phnom Penh
“I cannot stop the suit.”
The family of one of three women injured in a shooting by a city official in the Svay Rieng provincial town of Bavet has been offered money to drop its complaint, a local leader told VOA Khmer Wednesday.
Sok Sea, chief of Pdao village, said he was approached by a commune council leader police and asked to negotiate with the family a sum of $1,000 in exchange for their dropping the case against Bavet town governor Chhouk Bandith.
Chhouk Bandith is accused of firing into a group of garment factory protesters who gathered last month to demand better salaries and working conditions.
Sok Sea said the family of Bun Chenda, who was shot in the back and chest and was just released from a hospital in Phnom Penh, has asked for $10,000.
“The deputy police inspector and the chief of commune and his commune council member stayed and asked me to go and make a compromise with the victim’s family in exchange for $1,000,” he said.
Deputy police chief Keo Kong and Huot Samay and commune chief of Chrak Matess denied they have been involved in negotiations.
Bun Chenda, meanwhile, says she is not interested in dropping the case, even for that amount.
“He did this against me,” she said. “I cannot stop the suit.”
Sok Sam Oeun, executive director of Cambodian Defenders Project, said Cambodian law allows for out of court compromises on some crimes, but that law enforcement has a duty to pursue cases in serious crimes whether victims bring suit or not.
8 comments:
It is stupid to negotiate the money instead of the legal issues for all the people. It sounds like some victims who fall in love with money that means everything for them. This does not solve the problems for us Khmer people by letting the criminals of CPP regime get away with it, not serving the interests for us all Khmer and building or improving the quality of lives for us Khmer people for the long terms. If the victims of shooting under the CPP regime accepts the money that mean for them too much, that means the country of Cambodia will not solve and become the democratic country. So, the victims of shooting will be so fooled and still live in the dangers by letting the CPP criminals continue to have the powers to control the country and people of Cambodia.
Suggest that should not accept the money as a prize in order to drop the criminal case. Don't let the CPP crooks like Chouk Bandith, Men Sam An, Hun Sen and other high ranking members of CPP (Vietnamese/Yuon officials) to win and have more power for many years to come. Please, Khmer victims, don't accept the money from the CPP criminals and hide the cases that will not stop from the on-going crimes in Khmer society. We as Khmer people, should live in the very lawful country of Cambodia and will help Cambodia become the lawful and standard country like the U.S., Japan, France, Canada, UK, Germany, South Korea, etc. So, that is why we want Cambodia to be a very safe country to live and prosperous.
Even victims stop sue that man at civilian court,
he must also be prosecuted under criminal laws..
this involved two cases, a civil and criminal cases. what make this shooting crime different from the other shootings of innocent civilians.
koun khmer
Crime is a crime. Money should not be use to exchange criminal act. Crime should not go unpunished.
Chhouk bandit ,Chea sim Heng sam rin Men sam an Hun sen was a viet slave . Ask them how many dogs life when they bought to eat. now don't you tried to compare the worker life to the dogs life that you bought to eat . You need to thik if the people injured your damn family , How much will you offer back to tem . Kind the smart ass fucking viet slavery for ever.
Chhouk bandit ,Chea sim Heng sam rin Men sam an Hun sen was a viet slave . Ask them how many dogs life when they bought to eat. now don't you tried to compare the worker life to the dogs life that you bought to eat . You need to thik if the people injured your damn family , How much will you offer back to tem . Kind the smart ass fucking viet slavery for ever.
Chhouk bandit ,Chea sim Heng sam rin Men sam an Hun sen was a viet slave . Ask them how many dogs life when they bought to eat. now don't you tried to compare the worker life to the dogs life that you bought to eat . You need to thik if the people injured your damn family , How much will you offer back to tem . Kind the smart ass fucking viet slavery for ever.
Chhouk bandit ,Chea sim Heng sam rin Men sam an Hun sen was a viet slave . Ask them how many dogs life when they bought to eat. now don't you tried to compare the worker life to the dogs life that you bought to eat . You need to thik if the people injured your damn family , How much will you offer back to tem . Kind the smart ass fucking viet slavery for ever.
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