Thursday, March 18, 2010

Third villager shot by troops in Thailand, officials report

Thursday, 18 March 2010
By Tep Nimol
The Phnom Penh Post

CAMBODIAN authorities say another villager from Banteay Meanchey province has been shot and killed by Thai soldiers – the third reported case in less than a week.
Thma Puok district Police Chief Yort Yay said the villager, 44-year-old Pol Sarith, was shot three times in the head and chest along the Cambodian-Thai border on Monday.
“The victim is a villager who sells and buys secondhand motors with a Thai businessman,” Yort Yay said.
Yort Yay says the Thai soldiers also placed a bomb and 90 tablets of amphetamines near the victim’s body to accuse him of being a drug trafficker.

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