Thursday, June 14, 2007
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Heng Soy
Local newspapers reported that Thai police shot and killed one Cambodian teenager and shot and broke the leg of another child: 16-year-old Khorn Bunmean who was shot and killed, and 16-year-old Sieu Ratanak who was shot and injured. The two teenagers were hired as cow herders for a Thai boss in Aranyaprathet, Srakaew province, Thailand. A source indicated that the two children were working for the Thai boss for 3 to 4 years already and they live in Thailand’s Nongsang village. The injured boy said that when he and his companion were herding cows in the rice fields in Thailand, Thai police started to shoot at them. One of the bullet hit Khorn Bunmean but he did not die on the spot, as for him, since he was injured on his right foot, he was able to flee into Cambodian territory. The young boy who was injured claimed that his companion, Khorn Bunmean, did not die from the shot, but that the Thai police officers force fed him poison and killed him, his body was left in the middle of the rice field. There is no independent verification on the young boy’s claim, but the Thai police claimed that they shot the two boys because they were stealing chicken.
