Khmers tell me that the Chinese are taking over the country with many parts of the kingdom being sold off. I think in the long term this may be the end of the HE family’s grip on power.

Six to Face Punishment For Crackdown on Protest in Cambodia's Sihanoukville
2019-02-25
Five Cambodian police officers and a soldier will be punished for their role in suppressing a land-rights protest on Jan. 24 in southwest Cambodia’s Sihanoukville province, with two cases already referred to the courts for action, a police spokesperson told reporters on Monday.
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Five members of the Royal Gendarmerie, the Cambodian military police, now face “administrative measures,” Eng Hy, a spokesperson for the unit tasked with maintaining internal security in the country said.

“Among these, the case of an officer named Sok Thearith has been compiled and forwarded to the court on the grounds that he used violence against a resident,” Eng Hy said, adding that a soldier named Chan Mao had struck another villager with his assault rifle during the protest.

“Thus, the case of that soldier will also be referred to the court,” Eng Hy said.

Eng Hy said that the four facing discipline outside the courts, a deputy commander of the Gendarmerie named Pen Vibol and three other officers, will be subject to written reprimands by their units for having failed to prevent live fire which struck one villager in the chest, leaving him critically injured.

Six villagers were also arrested following the crackdown on a protest against the forcible eviction of residents from land in southwest Cambodia’s Sihanoukville province, in the country’s first violent police crackdown since a July election widely seen as unfree and unfair.

Villagers clashed with police armed with assault rifles and shields who tried to evict them using tactics described as “brutal and unacceptable,” following a Supreme Court decision to grant their land in Sihanoukville’s Prey Nob district as a concession to a wealthy businessman.

Residents of the site said they had occupied the site since 2002, with several having bought land from other villagers, and were surprised to suddenly learn that it belonged to the businessman.

The bullet that struck the injured villager had not come from an assault rifle carried by the Gendarmerie, but from a pistol, Eng Hy told reporters, adding that while pistols were also carried by the military police, the wounding shot had not been fired by them.

“The bullet that struck the victim was not fired by the Royal Gendarmerie,” he said.

Authorities are now conducting further investigations to identify the offender and bring him to justice, he added.

Speaking to RFA’s Khmer Service, Am Sam Ath—head of investigations for the Cambodia-based human rights group Licadho—said that it should not be difficult to discover the truth, “as long as there is the genuine will to do so.”

“An organization like the Royal Gendarmerie can examine the bullets from all of the guns that were used, and by looking into this, the case can be solved,” he said.
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambod ... 73350.html

CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2019 12:49 pm Six to Face Punishment For Crackdown on Protest in Cambodia's Sihanoukville
2019-02-25


The bullet that struck the injured villager had not come from an assault rifle carried by the Gendarmerie, but from a pistol, Eng Hy told reporters, adding that while pistols were also carried by the military police, the wounding shot had not been fired by them.

“The bullet that struck the victim was not fired by the Royal Gendarmerie,” he said.

Authorities are now conducting further investigations to identify the offender and bring him to justice, he added.

Speaking to RFA’s Khmer Service, Am Sam Ath—head of investigations for the Cambodia-based human rights group Licadho—said that it should not be difficult to discover the truth, “as long as there is the genuine will to do so.”

“An organization like the Royal Gendarmerie can examine the bullets from all of the guns that were used, and by looking into this, the case can be solved,” he said.
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambod ... 73350.html

Well that must cut down on the number of police at the site to be checked................... Who was there and where is their firearm? Not rocket science.

10 mins ago - BREAKING NEWS
HE threatens to fire a military commander, two deputy governors in Preah Sihanouk

Prime Minister HE has threatened to remove a provincial military commander and two deputy provincial governors in Preah Sihanouk province over their involvement in violent crackdown during a land dispute.

During a Supreme Consultative Council’s meeting on Thursday, Mr HE threatened to fire Preah Sihanouk provincial military commander Major General Savin Vibol and two unnamed deputy provincial governors over their involvement in using violent crackdown during the land dispute last month, according to Khmer Rise Party president Sok Sovann Vathana Sabung who attended the meeting.

“Samdech Techo expresses his regret and he directly orders [officials] to check and remove provincial military commander from his position,” Mr Sovann Vathana Sabung said. “Samdech Techo also threatens to fire deputy provincial governors involved in the land dispute.”
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50582605/h ... -sihanouk/

Smoke and mirrors.............seen the postulating before on many subjects.......all piss and wind

CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 6:01 pm 10 mins ago - BREAKING NEWS
HE threatens to fire a military commander, two deputy governors in Preah Sihanouk

Prime Minister HE has threatened to remove a provincial military commander and two deputy provincial governors in Preah Sihanouk province over their involvement in violent crackdown during a land dispute.

During a Supreme Consultative Council’s meeting on Thursday, Mr HE threatened to fire Preah Sihanouk provincial military commander Major General Savin Vibol and two unnamed deputy provincial governors over their involvement in using violent crackdown during the land dispute last month, according to Khmer Rise Party president Sok Sovann Vathana Sabung who attended the meeting.

“Samdech Techo expresses his regret and he directly orders [officials] to check and remove provincial military commander from his position,” Mr Sovann Vathana Sabung said. “Samdech Techo also threatens to fire deputy provincial governors involved in the land dispute.”
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50582605/h ... -sihanouk/

I guess Deputy Governor take their order from somewhere as well ...

There’s already news on FB that HE has indeed removed two deputy governors from SHV.

They will turn up at another province or PP department

Arget wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2019 12:07 pm They will turn up at another province or PP department

There might be the equivalent of the russian front in KOW

davegorman wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2019 11:09 am There’s already news on FB that HE has indeed removed two deputy governors from SHV.

Cambodia’s HE Fires Deputy Governors Involved in Land Dispute Crackdown
By RFA - March 2, 2019

Cambodian Prime Minister HE has ordered two deputy governors fired for their role in suppressing a land-rights protest on Jan. 24 in southwest Cambodia’s Sihanoukville province in which military police violently attacked villagers resisting eviction, sources said.

The order removed from office deputy governors Srun Sron and Phay Bunvannak, HE wrote on his Facebook page on Friday.

“Today, I forced myself to fire two Sihanoukville deputy governors,” HE said, adding, “I must remove the gravel and sand from my shoes in order to move forward.”

In full: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambod ... 64213.html