Khmer-Thai authority dug up the burned out corpse.By Khmerization
Source: RFA
A Cambodian worker was shot and killed by his Thai supervisor and his body burned with car tyres at 7 p.m on Saturday 11th September after he argued with his Thai co-workers at a drinking session at a Thai work site in Thailand's Chantaburi province, opposite Cambodia's Pailin province.
Mr. Chim Chomnan, the Cambodian chief of Prohm Checkpoint in Pailin province, confirmed the killing. "He shot him on the head with a pistol and transported the body in a pick up truck and burned it with car tyres and diesel fuel. After it was completely burned, he buried the charred remains in the ditch to hide the evidence, but it was all burned out, only bones and a liver still remained", he said.
According to a witness, 35 year-old Chan Chuon, who escaped back to Cambodia by jumping off a moving vehicle, the Cambodian victim, 24 year-old Ath Vanna, was shot in the head by 28 year-old Ekkaphut Pomkham, a Thai supervisor at the work site after Vath Vanna tried to break up a fight between Khmer and Thai workers. Chan Chuon said during a break from work, 6 Cambodian and Thai workers drank 4 bottles of wine together and got into a heated argument when they all got drunk and then the brawl ensued. The Thai supervisor, Ekkaphut Pomkham, arrived at the scene and fired one shot into the air to disperse to brawl and Ath Vanna also went in to disperse the brawl. When Ath Vanna tried to intervene, Ekkaphut Pomkham pushed his chest and Vath Vanna pushed out Ekkaphut Pomkham's hand from his chest. Ekkaphut then shot Vath Vanna in the head in an execution style.
Ekkaphut then forced all Cambodian workers to put Vath Vanna's dead body into a pick up truck and drove to a sugar farm to burn the body with car tyres. However, Chan Chuon, who feared for his life jumped out of the moving truck and escaped to the Cambodian border where reported the killing to Cambodian border police. "He (Ekkaphut) threatened and forced 5 Khmer workers into the pick up truck and half way (into the burial site) he ordered two of them to get off the truck to keep watch and brought the other 3 workers with him. At the the turn where the body was supposed to be burned and buried, one person who was so scared for his life, jumped off the truck and escaped back to Cambodia in the middle of the night and only 2 Khmers and 3 Thais left on the truck and he ordered them to put car tyres on top of the body and burned it with diesel fuel and big tree branches. They took some time to burn the corpse because they have to use a bulldozer to dig the pit first before they dumped the body into it and burned it", said another witness.
The Cambodian border police has contacted the Thai police and Ekkaphut and other Thai workers who were involved in the killing have since been arrested.
A Cambodian worker was shot and killed by his Thai supervisor and his body burned with car tyres at 7 p.m on Saturday 11th September after he argued with his Thai co-workers at a drinking session at a Thai work site in Thailand's Chantaburi province, opposite Cambodia's Pailin province.
Mr. Chim Chomnan, the Cambodian chief of Prohm Checkpoint in Pailin province, confirmed the killing. "He shot him on the head with a pistol and transported the body in a pick up truck and burned it with car tyres and diesel fuel. After it was completely burned, he buried the charred remains in the ditch to hide the evidence, but it was all burned out, only bones and a liver still remained", he said.
According to a witness, 35 year-old Chan Chuon, who escaped back to Cambodia by jumping off a moving vehicle, the Cambodian victim, 24 year-old Ath Vanna, was shot in the head by 28 year-old Ekkaphut Pomkham, a Thai supervisor at the work site after Vath Vanna tried to break up a fight between Khmer and Thai workers. Chan Chuon said during a break from work, 6 Cambodian and Thai workers drank 4 bottles of wine together and got into a heated argument when they all got drunk and then the brawl ensued. The Thai supervisor, Ekkaphut Pomkham, arrived at the scene and fired one shot into the air to disperse to brawl and Ath Vanna also went in to disperse the brawl. When Ath Vanna tried to intervene, Ekkaphut Pomkham pushed his chest and Vath Vanna pushed out Ekkaphut Pomkham's hand from his chest. Ekkaphut then shot Vath Vanna in the head in an execution style.
Ekkaphut then forced all Cambodian workers to put Vath Vanna's dead body into a pick up truck and drove to a sugar farm to burn the body with car tyres. However, Chan Chuon, who feared for his life jumped out of the moving truck and escaped to the Cambodian border where reported the killing to Cambodian border police. "He (Ekkaphut) threatened and forced 5 Khmer workers into the pick up truck and half way (into the burial site) he ordered two of them to get off the truck to keep watch and brought the other 3 workers with him. At the the turn where the body was supposed to be burned and buried, one person who was so scared for his life, jumped off the truck and escaped back to Cambodia in the middle of the night and only 2 Khmers and 3 Thais left on the truck and he ordered them to put car tyres on top of the body and burned it with diesel fuel and big tree branches. They took some time to burn the corpse because they have to use a bulldozer to dig the pit first before they dumped the body into it and burned it", said another witness.
The Cambodian border police has contacted the Thai police and Ekkaphut and other Thai workers who were involved in the killing have since been arrested.
Below, a soldier pointed to the victim's liver and bowel that were still unburned.
2 comments:
You never drink with your enemy and also you are in Thailand zone and you are no matched with gun. These Thai thugs are so damn cruel. When they look down on us,,,this is what they going to do,(killed you).
This case here is happened in every 4-5 months. Ther are so many Khmer workers who work in Thailand. Majority of them had been treated like slaves.
This case here reflects how Thai society and her government as a whole are inhuman and uncivilized.
I also blame Hun Sen ,the puppet of Hanoi that create this poverty across Cambodia. If you look at neighbouring countries such as Vietnam and Loas,they have none of their people are slaving abroad and been maltreated like this.
Hun Sen have sold thousand hectares of farmland for 99 years to Hanoi companies,while millions of Khmer young farmers are left without lands to farm.
Hun Sen's country for sale policy will turn Cambodian into a slave state of Hanoi in the next 10 years.
I would like to urge any powerful Khmer leaders in the government to save Khmer from from Hun Sen's traitorous policies.
Cambodia need your heroism.
True Khmer.
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