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SRP activist shot and killed in Kampong Cham province

05 March 2009
By Or Phearith
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
Click here to read the article in Khmer

One SRP activist from Memot district, Kampong Cham province, was shot and killed by an armed man in the afternoon of 04 March at his home.

Prack Vanny, the Choam commune chief, Memot district, indicated in the morning of 05 March, 45-year-old Moh Mamvit living in Kok Khloam village, Choam commune, was shot by two armed men (one armed man?) at his home. The motive for the shooting is unknown.

Bin Bao, an eyewitness who was standing 2-meter away from the victim, indicated that Pheang, the killer, knows the victim very well, and there was never any dispute between the two.

However, on the day of the incident, at about 2 PM, Pheang got off his motorcycle and called the victim to come out, then he shot the victim in front of the house.

Bin Bao reported: “(The victim) said: ‘I did not do anything, I know you younger brother Pheang, I know you.’ As the victim was approaching a little bit, the killer raised his gun and shot the victim who fell to the ground. The victim was saying: ‘Are you shooting me?’ After these few words, he died. He was shot near his left hip and the gunshot pierced his bladder and exited near hit butt. The killer was going to shoot more on the victim, I was next to him.”

Bien Pum, a police officer from Choam commune who was investigating on the spot, indicated that the killer was undertaking his action out in the open, and people know who he is and where he is from, but he is now fleeing and he also took a gun with him.

Bien Pum said: “Our police is building up a case in order to bring charge on the killer. We know his name and his unit. He ran away into the mango trees forest, he took a gun with him. My police force and my inspector are searching for the killer. We are posted everywhere, but we did not see him yet.”

Kampong Cham SRP MP Mao Monyvann reacted by saying that, prior to the 2008 general election, 3 SRP activists in Memot district had to flee because they were tortured by a thug, and at that time, the thug was not arrested either.

Mao Monyvann said: “Every time, when it is close to the election period, we saw SRP activists being killed, one after another, this is especially the case in Memot district. The identity of the culprits, the killers, is known, but the authority did not take any measure against them. Such conduct leads the culprit to act the same way over and over again against innocent people, these actions are illegal.”

MP Mao Monyvann asked the authority to take the appropriate measure to arrest the culprit and send them to face justice
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Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
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University of California, Riverside
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