Bomb hits Cambodia-Vietnam statue in Phnom Penh
- From: Chim <ChimS1@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 02:10:40 -0700
Bomb hits Cambodia-Vietnam statue in Phnom Penh
Sun Jul 29, 2007 4:39AM EDT
1 of 1Full SizeFeatured Broker sponsored linkPHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A
bomb exploded at a Cambodia-Vietnam friendship monument in Phnom Penh
on Sunday, forcing the evacuation of a public park where two other
devices were found and defused, police said.
The 10-kg bomb detonated around dawn, causing no injuries and little
damage to the stone statue erected after Vietnam's invasion of
Cambodia and defeat of the Khmer Rouge in 1979.
"This site represents the friendship of Cambodia and Vietnam. This
plot was meant to destroy that relationship," Phnom Penh police chief
Touch Naroth told Reuters at the scene.
He said police had no suspects.
The statue, which portrays a Cambodian soldier and a Vietnamese
comrade standing protectively over a Cambodian woman and her baby, is
in a park near Prime Minister Hun Sen's residence.
Hun Sen and other top members of his Cambodian People's Party (CPP)
were with Vietnam's army of invasion and were installed and supported
as rulers of Cambodia during Vietnam's decade-long occupation.
In 1998, opposition protesters, who have accused Hun Sen of having too
close a relationship with Hanoi, attacked the statue with hammers and
set it alight with petrol.
The incident drew a formal protest from Vietnam.
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