THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Police fired live ammunition during clashes with protesting garment workers outside Cambodia's capital Tuesday, killing a bystander who was struck by a bullet while selling rice and injuring at least 20 people, rights groups said.
Hundreds of workers from the SL Garment Processing (Cambodia) Ltd. Factory clashed with hundreds of riot police sent to block a march from the factory to the Phnom Penh residence of Prime Minister Hun Sen, according to two human rights groups.
Workers from the factory, which makes clothing for Gap, H&M and other international brands, have been protesting for months for better working conditions and pay.
The violence erupted after police sent five officers to negotiate with the protesters, who surrounded and threatened to beat the policemen, said Chan Soveth, senior investigator for the rights group Adhoc.
It was unclear which side started the attacks, which included police firing live bullets and tear gas to rescue their colleagues, and protesters throwing rocks and wielding iron bars and wooden sticks, Chan Soveth said.
A woman selling rice near the protest was killed by a police bullet, Chan Soveth and Am Sam Ath of the rights group Licadho both said.
Six protesters were injured, Chan Soveth said, adding that five Buddhist monks were hurt when police fired tear gas into a Buddhist pagoda where demonstrators had sought refuge. Nine other people were hurt, including youths who jumped into the clashes and bystanders.
"The crackdown conducted by police this morning against workers was very cruel and unacceptable," said Kong Athith, a spokesman for the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union, which organized the protest. "Workers were unarmed. Why did police use live ammunition to crack down on them?"
National Police officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
The garment industry is Cambodia's biggest export earner, employing about 500,000 people in more than 500 garment and shoe factories. In 2012, the Southeast Asian country shipped more $4 billion worth of products to the United States and Europe.
Pay is low and working conditions are usually uncomfortable. In May, the ceiling of a Cambodian footwear factory collapsed, killing two people and injuring seven.
10 comments:
The FKing guy actually instruct the police to SHOOT!!
He got a lots of blood on his hand. I would chop him into pieces if I stand next to him. Mother FKer.
This is how the Khmers lost their lands to Vietnam (Srok Youn) and eventually lose their place in the world (Ors Dei Nowv). It is not so much because the Vietnameses (Youns) are smarter and stronger but simply because the Khmers are stupid and weak!!! Just look at the images of how the Khmer security (be it Khmer CPP or Khmer rouge)treated their own people and you will understand why Khmers messed up. No foreigners ever had to kill the Khmers directly; simply gave Khmers a dose stimulance and the work (killing Khmers) was done. Khmers are different, even when they live oversea, they are negatively different from the rest of the world...easily corrupted, easily mellowed :-) Just be that way!!!
Pol pot going up now,there are a lot still alive,specially top commanders and ministers and through to chao sangkat the bottom leader,some polices military and military also pol pot,un should eliminate of this kind a problem in cambodia right away don't be late until they kill million more,the situation today is going up in this term as soon as possible,the devil is watching how strong react to against them from the world,If the UN still quiet like today they will do what they want to do that mean kill more until going to zero.
THOSE LOW CLASS PROTESTER'S ARE KHMER VIETMINH,
THEY LIKE TO DESTROY KHMER CITY,
PUT THEM IN JAIL FOR LIFE
THOSE PROTESTER'S ARE VIET AGENTS
This police chief Chhuon Sovann is really a thug, he doesn't know how to resolve the issue peacefully, but knows only how to use violence.
Pol Pot being bad,how the UN 's doing now,cambodian people bagging for longtime,they should make an action now,how we depend on UN ?
Do we hear the king said anything ? Did he tell the arm forces to stop shooting ? actually he quiet all the time,He eat a good food,living in a luxury place that paid from his own people,but the people get back from him that let the vietminh Hun sen shooting his own people and support china and Hanoi,we are khmer should review the history from sihanouk,He cheat his own people,He support vietminh and china and Hun sen since after unite nation come,He slept and treat by china,china that his 2nd home town,until today his son take place like him,He may die in china too,why the million people cry when sihanouk died
They are not Cambodian's police force, they are ah Kwak' street gangs. They rule streets, collects money from shops' owners and all motorist.
yhe king with his mother very happy to see people die or injured because they are youn.we are khmer so heart broken. the king sould appearl to help. from now we should respect this guy his name sihamoney or sihakmonky
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