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Striking Garment Workers Stopped by Military Police

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Mothers Still Wait for Justice in Chea Vichea Murder Case

By The Cambodia Daily - September 23, 2013

By Noun Kim Sry and Bros Theuy
On August 2, 2005, we received a letter from the late King Norodom Sihanouk. He told us that our sons, Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun, did not murder Chea Vichea. He told us that he hoped one day the court would realize it had made a mistake and would release them.
We thought that this day had come when the Supreme Court announced that our sons would be released and the Appeal Court would investigate their case again. This was on December 31, 2008.
But almost four years later, on December 27, 2012, the Appeal Court sent our sons back to prison even though they didn’t have any new evidence against them. They will be re-tried by the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Many people agree with the late King that our sons are innocent. In fact, no one believes they are guilty, even the police officer who led the first investigation said they were not the killers.
There is no real evidence against our sons and the newspaper seller who saw Chea Vichea’s murder said that they were not the killers she saw that day. There are eyewitnesses who can prove they were not even near the place where Chea Vichea was murdered—Born Samnang was in Prey Veng province and Sok Sam Oeun was staying with friends. Even the chief prosecutor said there was not enough evidence against them. So why are they still in prison? This we cannot understand.
When our sons were released in 2008, the U.N. and foreign embassies in Cambodia said their release was an important victory for human rights in Cambodia. Nobody can explain to us why they were arrested again in De­cember or what this meant for human rights in our country.
And we cannot explain this to Srey Thien, Sok Sam Oeun’s youngest daughter, when she asks why her father never comes home. We just hope and pray that he will be free to celebrate her third birthday with her in November. Sok Sam Oeun has two daughters, the oldest is now 16. Our sons were first arrested on January 28, 2004 and spent nearly five years in prison before they were released in 2008. When they go to the Supreme Court this week, they will have been in prison for 2,073 days for a crime they had nothing to do with.
Maybe you will be surprised that even now we still believe we can get justice. We have heard that after the elections there will be changes in our country, including in the courts. We believe that this could mean our sons will be released. Then we could start our lives again.
As we wait for the Supreme Court’s decision our sons continue to endure prison life. They are brave but their health is not good, they try to remain positive but prison leaves them with no energy.
For us, their mothers, we suffer. We are old and our health is poor. We cannot support our families and our situation weighs heavily upon us. All we ask for is justice—for our sons to be released, for their names to be cleared, for an end to this nightmare.
We ask the Supreme Court judges to overturn this injustice. We pray that Wednesday is the day that our late King once hoped for, when our sons will once again be free men.
Noun Kim Sry is the mother of Born Samnang and Bros Theuy the mother of Sok Sam Oeun.

© 2013, The Cambodia Daily. All rights reserved. No part of this article may be reproduced in print, electronically, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without written permission.

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Striking Garment Workers Stopped by Military Police

By Khuon Narim - September 28, 2013

Hundreds of military police officers carrying riot shields and four fire trucks blocked a road to prevent about 2,000 striking garment workers from marching to Prime Min­ister Hun Sen’s house near In­dependence Monument on Friday morning. The workers—from Singaporean-owned SL Garment Factory, which supplies the Gap—have been striking for more than a month to de­mand food stipends, the reinstatement of fired union leaders and that one of the factory’s managers be fired.

Several hundred military police officers backed up by three fire trucks block about 2,000 striking SL garment factory workers on Street 371 in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district as they try to march to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house near Independence Monument on Friday. (Siv Channa)

The workers marched for about one hour from the factory in Mean­chey district’s Stung Mean­chey commune until they were stopped by police on Street 371. “I regret that they used a huge amount of armed forces to prevent us from marching to Hun Sen’s house to ask for help,” Chhem Sophal, a 24-year-old worker, said. “City Hall and the Ministry of Social Affairs failed to resolve our dispute, so we want to march to [Hun Sen’s house],” he said. After blocking the workers for an hour, police officials said that they would let 30 workers through to meet a representative of Mr. Hun Sen’s Cabinet. Once the 30 representatives had reached Wat Botum Park, however, Kong Chamroeun, a Cabinet representative, accepted a petition but did not speak to the factory workers’ representatives. “City Hall will solve this,” Mr. Chamroeun said. “There was no solution when we met with Hun Sen’s Cabinet,” said Phal Dynak, one of the 30 workers who were allowed to march to Wat Botum. “They just came out to receive our petition and said that they will resolve the issue. I think they will ignore finding a solution.” Municipal Military Police Com­mander Major General Rath Srieng defended the need for such a large police presence, but declined to say exactly how many military police officers blocked the protesters. “We have put many forces of military police in place to balance the [large number of] protesters and to keep both sides quiet. If we only had four or 10 military police forces, the protesters will rampage the forces,” Mr. Srieng said.

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