PPPA man was shot dead today during a cockfighting crackdown in Phnom Penh’s Por Sen Chey district, allegedly by stray bullets fired by police.
Seak Ron, 33, was on the balcony of his third-floor apartment when police entered the ground-floor space at about 11:15am, where some 70 people had gathered to watch a cockfight.
Ron’s wife, Nob Sophanny, 27, said she heard the sound of gunshots and went outside, where she found her husband walking towards her with blood pouring from his throat.
“I was shot by someone,” he said, before collapsing, according to Sophanny.
She believes the bullets were “warning shots” fired by police to scare off gamblers. Her husband, she said, was an innocent bystander who was not gambling at the time he was shot.
“I feel so much regret,” she said, while stroking her 2-year-old son’s head. The couple also has a daughter, aged 5. “My husband is the breadwinner for our family. Now he’s gone, so who will be responsible for that?”
The venue is a popular spot for dice games and cockfighting, said Khon Rom, a man who was on the first floor of the Choam Chao commune building at the time of the shooting. He helped Sophanny take her dying husband to hospital.
“I heard the sound of many bullets, about 20 shots,” he said, adding he did not recognise the sound at first. “I stepped outside and I saw the police take out the gun [from their holsters], and then I felt scared.”
“The police were shooting randomly. I did not see him get shot. The police were not wearing their police uniforms.”
Sophanny alleged a police officer ascended the stairs but did not call an ambulance despite her pleas for help. Por Sen Chey District Police Chief Yim Saran hung up twice on reporters without explaining why the police had fired their weapons during the raid.
District police officers at Wat Por Satha, where Ron’s body was examined, declined to comment.
Nearby, Ron’s mother-in-law Doeurk Chandin wept, her head pressed against the ambulance that had carried her son-in-law’s body.
“I cannot express my feeling,” she said. Ron’s sister, Seak Sok Chan, sobbed as she spoke to journalists about her brother’s premature passing. His body will be taken to Kampong Speu province for a funeral.
Nong Sovanroth, a forensic pathologist assisting a joint investigation by the ministries of health, justice and interior into the death, said the victim had two wounds near his throat – one from a bullet that exited the body and the other a shrapnel wound.
Another bullet appeared to have grazed his right wrist, Sovanroth said. He estimated Ron died within 15 to 20 minutes of being shot.
Ministry of Justice spokesman Chin Malin said today that he did not have enough information about the incident to comment in detail.
“I heard about the police chief of the district and commune police cooperating together” on the cockfighting crackdown, he said.
“When we get the information, we will open the investigation.”For Ron’s widow, that investigation can’t come soon enough.
“I ask for the people who shot him to come forward,” she said. “I want justice for him.”
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Khmer TimesPhnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday handed a Por Senchey district police officer a one-year suspended prison sentence over the accidental death of a bystander who was shot when forces cracked down on a cockfighting ring last month.
Presiding judge Ros Piseth announced the verdict after the trial, sentencing Chorn Virak to one year in jail for unintentional murder, with the entire sentence suspended.
Court spokesman Suos Vithyearandy declined to comment yesterday.
Deputy prosecutor Sieng Sok said the verdict had been announced to the public and declined further comment.
Mr Virak, 27, fired the warning shots that killed Siek Rorn, 33.
Mr Rorn was standing on his balcony overlooking the scene at the time of the incident in Choam Chao 2 commune on January 21.
Phnom Penh police and district authorities provided $8,000 to the victim’s family for a funeral after the incident occurred.
Nop Phany, the victim’s wife, told reporters after her husband died that he was a garment worker and did not work on Sundays. He was on the third floor of their rental house when the stray bullets hit him.
Ms Phany said neighbours helped get her husband into an ambulance, but he died on the way to hospital.
“I am heartbroken, we have two children. What will I do without my husband?” she said. District police chief Yim Sarann declined to comment yesterday, but said on Monday that his officers had been patrolling the area when they found the cockfighting arena.
Spectators watching the cockfighting clashed with officers, knocking some to the ground and causing them to lose their weapons.
“At that point, officers fired into the air in self defence, and unfortunately hit a man who was standing on the balcony of a nearby building,” Mr Sarann said. “They had no intention of hurting him.”
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Why this thread dont get no attention? It reminded me of not long ago about a deputy prosecutor in Siem Reap ran over motorists while drunk in his Lexus and killed them instantly on national road 6. The verdict? He did not mean to run over people...just an accident. Yea ok.
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I tried to post a link to Cambodia Daily where I first originally read it but I think it is blocked. Here is the PPP one:
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/s ... it-and-runA Siem Reap deputy provincial prosecutor was released without charges last week after killing another motorist while allegedly driving under the influence and then trying to flee the scene.
One man was killed and another injured when Deputy Prosecutor Samrith Sokhon drove his Lexus into a motorbike shortly after midnight on Thursday. Chim Sovann, traffic police chief of Siem Reap town, said Sokhon dragged the motorbike and driver almost 1,000 metres while trying to flee. According to local media, Sokhon was stopped by bystanders. Sovann also confirmed local media reports that Sokhon had been drinking.
Despite all this, Sokhon was released, for reasons that Sovann admitted were influenced by his position. “After he crashed into the motorbike we arrested him and released him, because there was an understanding. Because we know him clearly; he works in the prosecutor’s institution, and he already paid compensation for the victims.”
Siem Reap town Police Chief Tith Naroth would only say the case was closed and “has already been solved”.
San Chey, of the Affiliated Network for Social Accountability-Cambodia, said the situation, regrettably, was “not a new kind of impunity”.
Ear Chariya, of the Institute for Road Safety, noted that “law enforcement on drunk driving is very limited”, and the latest case was “undermining the efforts for improving and building the culture of road safety”.
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