SRP visits detainees’ families

Chikreng villagers shot by the savage cops (Photo: Savyouth, RFA)
SRP MP Ke Sovannaroth (Photo: Cambodge Soir Hebdo)

Friday, 27 August 2010
May Titthara and Will Baxter
The Phnom Penh Post

NINE members of the opposition Sam Rainsy Party met yesterday with the families of 12 Siem Reap villagers jailed last week in relation to a local land dispute.

Ke Sovannaroth, an SRP parliamentarian representing Siem Reap, said that the party organised the visit in order to offer its moral support to the families of those jailed.

“The court did not provide justice for these people,” she said. “These villagers are the victims in this land dispute.”

Last Friday, Siem Reap provincial court sentenced nine of the villagers, from Chi Kraeng district’s Chi Kraeng commune, to three years in prison each after convicting them of forming an illegal armed force.