Tola Moeun: Sok Chhun Oeung Chhun, vice president of IDEA has just been released from Phnom Penh police headquarter.
Published on January 19, 2014, Licadho
A gathering this afternoon calling for the release of the 23 workers and rights defenders arrested earlier this month, and for an increase in the minimum wage, has ended with the arrest of Sokchhun Oeung, Vice President of the Independent Democracy of Informal Economy Association (IDEA). Vorn Pao, President of IDEA, was among the 23 rights defenders and workers arrested earlier in the month.
At 4pm, before the gathering began, media and human rights observers waiting at Wat Ounalom for the main group to arrive were forced out of the grounds by about 50 security guards and civilians wearing black motorcycle helmets . The group moved to Preah Ong Dongkau spirit house in front of the Royal Palace, closely followed by the guards and civilians. At about 5pm, there were multiple standoffs which involved the guards intimidating and pushing demonstrators for over an hour. Organisers and rights observers responded by linking arms, singing the Cambodian national anthem and songs of peaceful resistance. During this period, at least two trucks of riot police arrived at the palace. At 5.30pm, they arrested Sokchhun Oeung, who was standing towards the back of the gathering. He has been taken to the Phnom Penh municipal police station. Lawyers are currently on their way there to try and secure his release. According to Cambodian law, he can be detained for up to 24 hours without seeing a lawyer and up to 48 hours without charge.
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Why are those security bodyguards in police uniforms covering their faces?
Are they trying to hide their faces because they are Yuon/Vietnamese and they are not Khmer/Cambodian language properly?
AGAIN AND AGAIN, THEY ARE SECRET VIETNAMESE/YUON AS HUN SEN'S BODYGUARDS IF THEY KEEP COVERING THEIR FACES WITH HELMETS.
TELL THE FOREIGNERS OR JOURNALIST/REPORTERS AND WHITE WESTERNERS THEY ARE EVIL YUON/VIETNAMESE AGENTS HIDING IN KHMER POLICE UNIFORMS AND HELMETS TO COVER THEIR FACES. THEY MAY OR MAY NOT SPEAK KHMER/CAMBODIAN LANGUAGE PROPERLY, BUT ONLY BLOW THE WHISTLE ALL THE TIME. WE DON'T UNDERSTAND THOSE THUGS OR BASTARDS ARE DOING.
WE SHOULD EXPLAIN THIS TO THE UN AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES ABOUT THOSE BODYGUARDS HIDING THEIR FACES WITH HELMETS AND KHMER POLICEMAN UNIFORMS.
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