Sunday, December 27, 2009

Svay Rieng villagers flee court order

Friday, 25 December 2009
By Vong Sokheng
The Phnom Penh Post

TWO villagers due in Svay Rieng provincial court on Thursday for questioning in connection with the uprooting of demarcation poles along the Cambodia-Vietnam border have gone into hiding, a rights group official said Thursday.
Nget Nara, Svay Rieng coordinator for the rights group Adhoc, said the fugitives – Khon Chea, 31, and Prak Koeun, 38 – fled upon hearing that two other villagers, Meas Srey and Prom Chea, had been arrested immediately after appearing for questioning Wednesday.
A third villager scheduled for questioning Wednesday, Neang Phalla, escaped before his turn on the stand. His whereabouts remain unknown.

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