Feb 20, 2012,
Phnom Penh - A woman was in a critical condition after being shot during a protest outside a factory supplying sportswear giant Puma SE in south-eastern Cambodia on Monday, rights groups said. [Union claimed 3 protesters were shot dead and 12 wounded].
Workers at Kao Way factory in Bavet, near the Vietnamese border in Svay Rieng province, were protesting early Monday when a unidentified gunman fired shots, said rights group Licadho.
According to initial reports, three workers were seriously injured. One woman was in a critical condition after being shot in the chest and was coughing up blood, Licadho consultant Mathieu Pellerin said.
Up to 1,000 people were present at the strike, he said, citing workers' accounts. Workers were protesting unfair working conditions, according to local media reports.
Puma said it had 'immediately started investigations to obtain detailed information on the occurrences.'
'Puma takes this incident very seriously and will take all measures to ensure that the safety of its supplier factory workers is paramount,' the German company said in a statement.
Consultant Joel Preston of NGO Cambodia Legal Education Centre added that the incident contributed to a 'worrying' trend of violence being used against protesters in Cambodia in recent months.
Chieng Am, governor of Svay Rieng province, told news agency Xinhau that he had ordered the police to hunt for the perpetrator.
5 comments:
I have worked for a foreign owned garment factory in Phnom Penh before. I am quite aware of the labour situation in Cambodia.
In this instance,it appears that the shooting was a provoked shooting.
I am not discussing about the shooting incident. I only wish that the authorities would find out whether the strike was legal or illegal.
Looking at the situation, it appears that most strikes are illegal. How can you have strikes being reported in Cambodia almost every day.? It appears that most of these strikes are illegal strikes. Who would want to invest in factories anymore if just a group of workers (instigated by outsiders)strike so frequently.
In many countries, if a strike is illegal, the Govt first arrests the leaders of the strikers, and then talk later.
The cambodian Govt should do the same.
21 February 2012 11:02 AM, Are you a CPP dog?
If strike are illegal and protest are also illegal, then what isnt illegal?
If talking isnt leading to a solution, then those that goes on illegal strikes and illegal protest should be arrested, locked up and sent to prison. WHAT KIND OF FUCKED UP WORLD, do you live in BUDDY!
But shooting and using AK47 is okay against these illegal protesters??
This blogger 21 February 2012 11:02 AM was paid by CPP dogs to write this comment just like a brainwashed monkey.
Going on strike, illegal or not, there is no reason to shoot the strikers to dead.
There are only 14 millions of people in Cambodia. How come? Government is incapable to cope such tragic situation and still releasing the f@@king dogs to shoot people. A real democracy indeed as state TV asserted.
Freedom of expression and human rights are human basic universal values. To be human we must have these rights to protest or to express. protesting or expressing is a modern form of dialogues.
People are born equal. No one is above or lower than the other.
No one has right to kill or to abuse someone although he or she is found guilty of something,for every human being is special and amazing.
Those who shot peaceful protester are simply Hun's direct instrument. Hun use this barbaric acts to suppress people,to force people to live in big prison,where freedom and human right is taken away.
I am so sad for my people,for more than 33 years later after 1979,we are still in big prison,where people are still being shot and killed in front of my naked eyes without reason.
What is the purpose of life ?
What are we living for?
Life is so light,why do some people have to kill for their living?.
Can you see can you take anything with you when you die?
Have a look at the physical universe and the mystery of existence itself,doesn't it make you wonder why we all individual are amazing?,from small cell in our mum womb to a full elegant perfect being?.
I am so out of this argument,but I let you know that those who killed any human being will be hunted down not just by people in our world but also by God authoritarians.
They don't have anything if they don't have peace of mind.
Life is sacred.
True Khmer
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