Mom Kunthear
Phnom Penh Post
A MEANCHEY district man pursuing a criminal complaint against a woman he says botched an abortion procedure that killed his wife expressed frustration yesterday that no charge had been brought in the case despite the fact that he has been questioned by court clerks seven times.
Hiv Leng said he appeared yesterday at the court along with two witnesses as well as documents that he said proved the midwife’s guilt.
“I went to the court and brought two witnesses for questioning, but the court officials asked me to bring more witnesses,” he said. Hiv Leng said he already had five other witnesses in mind.
He also said the clerk, Heng Rami, had encouraged him to drop the case and accept a compensation payment from the midwife’s family. The family has previously proposed a payment of US$2,000.
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Misbehaving mystic charged with sex assault
Mom Kunthear
Phnom Penh Post
A “HOLY man” in Kampong Cham province has been arrested for allegedly duping a woman into meditating at his home without clothes on and then sexually assaulting her.
An Kim Sry, deputy police chief of Kampong Cham’s Chamkar Leu district, said the 24-year-old victim visited Ouk Sovanny, 26, last Thursday in the hope of finding a cure for her seriously ill husband.
When the couple arrived, the holy man said the woman had an “evil mole” on her body that was causing her husband’s illness, An Kim Sry said. The guru allegedly advised her to step into a separate room, strip naked and meditate silently.
“He told her that if she did not do this, her husband would not get better,” An Kim Sry said.
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Phnom Penh Post
A “HOLY man” in Kampong Cham province has been arrested for allegedly duping a woman into meditating at his home without clothes on and then sexually assaulting her.
An Kim Sry, deputy police chief of Kampong Cham’s Chamkar Leu district, said the 24-year-old victim visited Ouk Sovanny, 26, last Thursday in the hope of finding a cure for her seriously ill husband.
When the couple arrived, the holy man said the woman had an “evil mole” on her body that was causing her husband’s illness, An Kim Sry said. The guru allegedly advised her to step into a separate room, strip naked and meditate silently.
“He told her that if she did not do this, her husband would not get better,” An Kim Sry said.
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Five more flee labour firm, group reports
Mom Kunthear and Khuon Leakhana
Phnom Penh Post
LABOUR advocates say five more workers have fled from a recruitment firm’s training centre this month after they were denied permission to leave the facility.
The new report comes on the heels of multiple cases of alleged abuse forwarded to rights workers, who in response have raised fresh concerns regarding the country’s rapidly expanding labour export industry.
Huy Pichsovann, a labour programme officer at the Community Legal Education Centre, said CLEC staffers interviewed five women yesterday who said they fled the Phnom Penh training centre run by PMP Company on August 16.
“I met the workers and asked why they fled the company, and they said because the company detained them without having freedom, not enough food to eat and they were forced to sleep among too many workers,” Huy Pichsovann said.
He said that CLEC investigators would ask for an explanation from the company.
Phat Samol, PMP’s executive director, yesterday contradicted the women’s claims.
“Those five workers escaped because they didn’t want to work in Malaysia,” he said.
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Phnom Penh Post
LABOUR advocates say five more workers have fled from a recruitment firm’s training centre this month after they were denied permission to leave the facility.
The new report comes on the heels of multiple cases of alleged abuse forwarded to rights workers, who in response have raised fresh concerns regarding the country’s rapidly expanding labour export industry.
Huy Pichsovann, a labour programme officer at the Community Legal Education Centre, said CLEC staffers interviewed five women yesterday who said they fled the Phnom Penh training centre run by PMP Company on August 16.
“I met the workers and asked why they fled the company, and they said because the company detained them without having freedom, not enough food to eat and they were forced to sleep among too many workers,” Huy Pichsovann said.
He said that CLEC investigators would ask for an explanation from the company.
Phat Samol, PMP’s executive director, yesterday contradicted the women’s claims.
“Those five workers escaped because they didn’t want to work in Malaysia,” he said.
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Labour agency investigated
Kim Yuthana and Mom Kunthear
Phnom Penh Post
POLICE in Phnom Penh raided a labour recruitment training centre yesterday after a man complained that its director had refused to release his wife.
Chamkarmon district police officers dropped in on the training centre run by the firm APMN in the morning, said deputy district police chief Heang Tharet.
“We talked with the company staff about the complaint,” he said. “We told them that we cannot allow the woman to stay in this centre any longer because a man asked us to help his wife get out.”
The complainant, Prom Nai, said his wife, Kin Ya, had started training with the firm in July in the hope of becoming a domestic worker in
Malaysia.
But he said she wanted to quit because she was not permitted to leave the facility. The company, however, refused.
“The centre asked for US$975 from me if I wanted my wife to leave, but I don’t have that much money,” Prom Nai said.
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Phnom Penh Post
POLICE in Phnom Penh raided a labour recruitment training centre yesterday after a man complained that its director had refused to release his wife.
Chamkarmon district police officers dropped in on the training centre run by the firm APMN in the morning, said deputy district police chief Heang Tharet.
“We talked with the company staff about the complaint,” he said. “We told them that we cannot allow the woman to stay in this centre any longer because a man asked us to help his wife get out.”
The complainant, Prom Nai, said his wife, Kin Ya, had started training with the firm in July in the hope of becoming a domestic worker in
Malaysia.
But he said she wanted to quit because she was not permitted to leave the facility. The company, however, refused.
“The centre asked for US$975 from me if I wanted my wife to leave, but I don’t have that much money,” Prom Nai said.
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Two men hurt in acid attack; toll rises to 30
Brooke Lewis and Mom Kunthear
Phnom Penh Post
AT least 30 people have been injured by acid attacks this year, as an assault this weekend saw two men hospitalised.
Activists warn that the number of people affected by acid violence so far in 2010 has likely already eclipsed last year’s total.
The Saturday attack happened in Russey Keo district’s Tuol Sangke commune, said Chan Sahuth, the deputy district police chief.
“We are searching to arrest the suspect but we don’t clearly know the reasons behind the attack,” he said.
He identified the two victims, both construction workers, as 30-year-old Hin Seng and 26-year-old Chhang Nab.
Chhun Sophea, programme manager at the Cambodian Acid Survivors Charity, said the two men had been riding a motorbike when they were attacked.
CASC staff members visited the men at Calmette Hospital on Saturday, she said.
She said that Hin Seng had told her he believed he was the target of the attack, but that he could not identify the assailant.
Hin Seng’s injuries are the more serious of the two, she said – the 30-year-old suffered severe burns on half of his body.
The attack brings the number of reported acid attack victims up to 30 this year, just short of the 33 survivors recorded by CASC last year.
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Phnom Penh Post
AT least 30 people have been injured by acid attacks this year, as an assault this weekend saw two men hospitalised.
Activists warn that the number of people affected by acid violence so far in 2010 has likely already eclipsed last year’s total.
The Saturday attack happened in Russey Keo district’s Tuol Sangke commune, said Chan Sahuth, the deputy district police chief.
“We are searching to arrest the suspect but we don’t clearly know the reasons behind the attack,” he said.
He identified the two victims, both construction workers, as 30-year-old Hin Seng and 26-year-old Chhang Nab.
Chhun Sophea, programme manager at the Cambodian Acid Survivors Charity, said the two men had been riding a motorbike when they were attacked.
CASC staff members visited the men at Calmette Hospital on Saturday, she said.
She said that Hin Seng had told her he believed he was the target of the attack, but that he could not identify the assailant.
Hin Seng’s injuries are the more serious of the two, she said – the 30-year-old suffered severe burns on half of his body.
The attack brings the number of reported acid attack victims up to 30 this year, just short of the 33 survivors recorded by CASC last year.
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Military officer linked to wildlife smuggling
Mom Kunthear and Thet Sambath
Phnom Penh Post
RATANAKKIRI provincial authorities have identified a military officer as the owner of an abandoned car that was found near the Vietnamese border last week carrying more than 300 kilograms of protected wildlife.
Nov Dara, deputy chief of the provincial Bureau for Combating Economic Crime, yesterday identified the car’s owner as as Prum Saream, a military border officer based in Ratanakkiri.
“We sent a report and the car to the provincial Forestry Department in order for them to investigate this case,” he said. “I have handed over details of this person’s identity, such as his name and position, to forestry officials already.”
Pen Bonnar, provincial coordinator for the rights group Adhoc, said that so far, the military official was denying involvement.
“Prum Saream said it is his car, but that his friend borrowed it from him and he did not know it was being loaded with wildlife,” he said. Pen Bonnar said the officer would not face punishment if he was able to provide evidence to support his alibi.
On Monday last week, provincial authorities discovered the car abandoned near the Vietnamese border and confiscated 354 kilograms of protected wildlife, including snakes, turtles, civets and newts.
Pen Bonnar said wildlife trafficking was not uncommon in Ratanakkiri.
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Phnom Penh Post
RATANAKKIRI provincial authorities have identified a military officer as the owner of an abandoned car that was found near the Vietnamese border last week carrying more than 300 kilograms of protected wildlife.
Nov Dara, deputy chief of the provincial Bureau for Combating Economic Crime, yesterday identified the car’s owner as as Prum Saream, a military border officer based in Ratanakkiri.
“We sent a report and the car to the provincial Forestry Department in order for them to investigate this case,” he said. “I have handed over details of this person’s identity, such as his name and position, to forestry officials already.”
Pen Bonnar, provincial coordinator for the rights group Adhoc, said that so far, the military official was denying involvement.
“Prum Saream said it is his car, but that his friend borrowed it from him and he did not know it was being loaded with wildlife,” he said. Pen Bonnar said the officer would not face punishment if he was able to provide evidence to support his alibi.
On Monday last week, provincial authorities discovered the car abandoned near the Vietnamese border and confiscated 354 kilograms of protected wildlife, including snakes, turtles, civets and newts.
Pen Bonnar said wildlife trafficking was not uncommon in Ratanakkiri.
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Acid attack suspect at large
Kim Samath and Mom Kunthear
Phnom Penh Post
POLICE said yesterday that they are still searching for a factory worker suspected of injuring four people in an acid attack in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district on Wednesday morning.
One woman was critically injured and three others suffered minor burns in the attack outside Chantex garment factory, in which a young man doused a female factory worker with acid outside a sugarcane juice stand, splashing three bystanders in the process.
Keo Savorn, a 23-year-old worker who was badly burned in the attack, said she had recognised the perpetrator and knew he worked in the laundry department of the factory.
Born Samath, Dangkor district police chief, said yesterday that police had identified a suspect but had been so far unable to make an arrest because the man had gone into hiding.
“We are searching for him and we already know his name, age and identity,” Born Samath said. “He is escaping and hiding from us, but we will arrest him and punish him through the law for what he did.”
He said that the investigation had been aided by cooperation from the victims, who had all filed complaints.
Keo Savorn’s father said yesterday that his daughter had been moved from Calmette Hospital, where she had been taken immediately after the attack, to the Cambodian Acid Survivors Charity, which offers victims free medical treatment and rehabilitation.
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Phnom Penh Post
POLICE said yesterday that they are still searching for a factory worker suspected of injuring four people in an acid attack in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district on Wednesday morning.
One woman was critically injured and three others suffered minor burns in the attack outside Chantex garment factory, in which a young man doused a female factory worker with acid outside a sugarcane juice stand, splashing three bystanders in the process.
Keo Savorn, a 23-year-old worker who was badly burned in the attack, said she had recognised the perpetrator and knew he worked in the laundry department of the factory.
Born Samath, Dangkor district police chief, said yesterday that police had identified a suspect but had been so far unable to make an arrest because the man had gone into hiding.
“We are searching for him and we already know his name, age and identity,” Born Samath said. “He is escaping and hiding from us, but we will arrest him and punish him through the law for what he did.”
He said that the investigation had been aided by cooperation from the victims, who had all filed complaints.
Keo Savorn’s father said yesterday that his daughter had been moved from Calmette Hospital, where she had been taken immediately after the attack, to the Cambodian Acid Survivors Charity, which offers victims free medical treatment and rehabilitation.
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