Government Denies Former Police Commisioner's Charges
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- Date: 16 Aug 2006 14:08:03 -0700
Government Denies Former Police Commisioner's Charges
Sakada Chun
Phnom Penh
16/08/2006
Government officials Wednesday deny former police commissioner's murder
charges, but opposition party and civil society officials appeal for
Prime Minister Hun Sen's government to investigate these charges.
The denial and the appeal are being made after former police
commissioner Heng Pov made a report on Tuesday, charging government
officials of being involved with the July 1997 grenade attacks on
innocent and non-violent demonstrators, actress Pisith Pelika's murder,
Ministry of Interior's general secretary Ho Sok's murder, from
FUNCINPEC party quota in 1997, and Mr. Heng Pov himself being
threatened of murder if he continues his drug trafficking
investigation.
Government spokesman and Minister of Information, Khieu Kanharith
denies the charges, saying they are groundless and degrading the
government, and that this government did not murder the popular actress
or any other people.
National police commissioner Hok Lundy, in an interview with VOA
Tuesday, says that he is aware of Mr. Heng Pov's nine-page report via
e-mail two days ago, and that this report's goal is to get a political
asylum.
Opposition party Sam Rainsy told reporters at the National Assembly
that the government must investigate Mr. Heng Pov's charges even though
there are no concrete evidences, and that those murderous acts cannot
be forgotten.
Cambodia Center for Human Rights' (CCHR) director Kem Sokha appeals to
the Cambodian government and the international community to investigate
Mr. Heng Pov's report, to prevent suspiscion from arising in the
future, whether or not the evidences are true or otherwise.
Executive Director of the Cambodian Defenders Project, and Law
Lecturer, Sok Sam Oeun says that the information might be true or it
might be false, but these charges may make the government leaders be on
guard in the future, and not committing any offenses.
Last month, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court issued an arrest warrant for
Mr. Heng Pov on charges suspecting him of numerous crimes, after the
suspect fled to Singapore.
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