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Source: RFA
Cambodian authority has banned the documentary film "Who killed Chea Vichea?" from being screened in a Phnom Penh public park in International Labour Day as well as any across the country, reports Radio Free Asia.
The ban was issued in a meeting between Mr. Rong Chhun, president of the Cambodian Independent Teachers Association and the Confederation of Cambodian Unions, and Phnom Penh City Hall officials on Thursday. Mr. Rong Chhun and a few other unions had asked permission to screen the film publicly about Chea Vichea's murder. Many commentators, foreign diplomats as well as government critics believed that the government or officials were complicit in his murder when he was gunned down in broad daylight in January 2004.
In a minute of the meeting as well as a response letter to the unions, Phnom Penh City Hall stated that the reason the permission was not granted was because the film had not received proper official authorisation from the relevant government ministries.
However, Mr. Rong Chhun said that he will go ahead with the screening of the film regardless of whether the permission was granted or not. "In the name of the Confederation of Cambodian Unions, we will make an effort to screen the film so that the people, teachers and workers can watch it and it is also another way of pressuring the authority to urgently re-open the investigation relating to the murder of union leader Chea Vichea", he said.
However, Mr. Touch Naroth, Phnom Penh Police Commissioner, told Kampuchea Thmey newspaper that if Mr. Rong Chhun go ahead with the screening without permission, the police will take action against him.
Source: RFA
Cambodian authority has banned the documentary film "Who killed Chea Vichea?" from being screened in a Phnom Penh public park in International Labour Day as well as any across the country, reports Radio Free Asia.
The ban was issued in a meeting between Mr. Rong Chhun, president of the Cambodian Independent Teachers Association and the Confederation of Cambodian Unions, and Phnom Penh City Hall officials on Thursday. Mr. Rong Chhun and a few other unions had asked permission to screen the film publicly about Chea Vichea's murder. Many commentators, foreign diplomats as well as government critics believed that the government or officials were complicit in his murder when he was gunned down in broad daylight in January 2004.
In a minute of the meeting as well as a response letter to the unions, Phnom Penh City Hall stated that the reason the permission was not granted was because the film had not received proper official authorisation from the relevant government ministries.
However, Mr. Rong Chhun said that he will go ahead with the screening of the film regardless of whether the permission was granted or not. "In the name of the Confederation of Cambodian Unions, we will make an effort to screen the film so that the people, teachers and workers can watch it and it is also another way of pressuring the authority to urgently re-open the investigation relating to the murder of union leader Chea Vichea", he said.
However, Mr. Touch Naroth, Phnom Penh Police Commissioner, told Kampuchea Thmey newspaper that if Mr. Rong Chhun go ahead with the screening without permission, the police will take action against him.
2 comments:
I'm so sorry for the death of this man. From what I understand he was only trying to better the lives of the garment workers. And for that he posed as a threat to the government?
Be assure of this; if they never come to justice of who actually killed him - the Judge of all the earth will hold the killer(s) responsible for murdering him. They will be judge by him. For he is the Judge of the living and the dead. And his justice is True and Right without partiality.
Chea Cichea is one of the bravest union leaders Cambodia has ever had and not afraid to fight for the betterment of the workers he represents. And for that he pay a high price with his life.
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