CPP supporters campaign on motorbikes last month in Takeo province. Six CNRP members were summonsed yesterday at the Takeo Provincial Court over a confrontation between rival political rallies in the province’s Prey Khla commune. Facebook
4 Jul, 2017 Kong Meta
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Six opposition officials yesterday appeared at the Takeo Provincial Court for questioning about a complaint accusing them of defamation, insults and “incitement” over a confrontation that took place in Koh Andet district during the campaign for the June 4 commune elections.
Keo Eath, the CNRP’s deputy chief for Prey Khla commune, where the confrontation took place, and fellow opposition commune councillors Morm Saroeun, Hem Korn, Chun Choeun, Sun Savoeurn and Sok Sang, were summonsed over a dispute that took place on May 20, said Sang.
Eath said that the prosecutor asked them to explain what happened on May 20 and that the group denied accusations made against them that they had started a verbal fight with officials from the Cambodian People’s Party and had blocked them from campaigning.
“They scolded us, scolded our mothers, and I couldn’t [take] it, that is why I replied back and said ‘stupid’,” Eath said, adding that the group had asked the prosecutor to consider closing the case without charges.
The complaint was filed by CPP Commune Chief Pich Chim, and the court was still considering whether to proceed with any charges, according to Phann Sopheak, a spokesman for court Prosecutor Tep Munin.
“We just questioned them,” Sopheak said, adding that Munin was now seeking evidence about the campaign dispute from both sides. “We haven’t charged them yet. If they have evidence, the prosecutor will summons them [again]. Now, they have not given evidence.”
He said the court would decide whether to pursue the case after the officials are given adequate time to submit evidence. However, Sang, one of the six, said that finding such exculpatory evidence could be hard.
“We don’t have evidence, because we didn’t know they were going to file a complaint against us,” Sang said, explaining that the six officials were the only witnesses to the May 20 dispute of whom they were aware.
Pich Chim, the CPP commune chief who filed the complaint, said that his side had all the evidence it needed to prove its claims about what happened on May 20 and would continue to pursue the case in court.
“We have a video,” Chim said, accusing the six officials of being disingenuous in their account of what happened in the dispute.
“I am not going to withdraw the complaint. If they know we are both working for the same common interests, why would they block us?”
1 comment:
Yuon's slave Hun Sen,
Can you behave a little better than the dog ?? The dog is always faithful to its master.
Yes, your master Yuon had destroyed your superior Penn Sovann and put you in power to facilitate its plan of annexing Cambodia.
Presently, Khmer people are waking up to face Yuon, and unfortunately you are still trying to suppress them.
The crimes committed by you and the danger posed by your master Yuon to Cambodia have compelled Khmer people to vote you out in this upcoming 2018 election.
Now, you keep amending the law attempting to dissolve the CNRP. The circumstance is not favorable to your cheap mind. You will go down as the worst Khmer traitor in history if you insist on violently quelling the patriotic movement of Khmer people to stop Yuon's dominance in Cambodia.
You must stop trying to destroy the CNRP. It will not work. People will vote you out in 2018. The devil one eye monster Hun Sen must relinquish his dirty power to the winner.
Stop fighting the natural law Ah Chkuot Hun Sen: Everything has its end. You have to accept that if you don't want to go to hell the same way as Muammar Gaddafi.
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