The victim’s name was Chan Sophea, 25, living in the above area, but he had migrated to live in Kolab One, Srah Chork commune, Daun Penh district, Phnom Penh in order to earn a living by polishing shoes.
According to a witness Tang Sivon, 28, on January 13, 2010 at about 3:30 PM about ten Pognea Leu military police officers came to crack down an illegal cock-fighting arena in the aforesaid location. During suppression, villagers, who watched out the gamecock, were respectively running away to escape from being arrested. At that time the victim and other two men ran and jumped into a fish pond. The two men were able to swim, and then they could run away freely; whereas Chan Sophea could not. He was trying to shout for help, but those military police fired shots in the air and threatened to shoot anyone, who dared to save him.
No longer did the victim disappear in the pond. Up to 6:00 PM, villagers jumped into the water to save him, but only to see him pass away symphesatically.
So far no arrest has been made of those perpetrators.
This was a cruel and inhuman act of those military police. This act seriously violated the Cambodian Constitutional Law, the Universal Declaraton on Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights about rights to life.
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