Khim Sambor: the Government accepts help from the FBI

Cambodge Soir
05-08-2008

On the 14th of July, the American Embassy offered the help of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in order to solve the killing of the journalist Khim Sambor and his son.

On Friday the 1st of August, the government accepted help from the FBI concerning the murder case of the journalist Khim Sambor and his son, announced Khieu Sopheak, spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior.

Khim Sambor, journalist at the opposition newspaper “Moneaksekar Khmer”, with close ties to the Sam Rainsy party, has been shot together with his son by unknown assailants on Friday the 11th of July.

On Thursday 24th of July, the opposition leader, Sam Rainsy, had uttered doubts concerning the goodwill of the government leaders in finding the culprits. “I think that they’ll refuse the help from the FBI”, he told the “Cambodge Soir Hebdo”.

On the 1st of February, an FBI antenna became operational at the American Embassy.

Moreover, on the 1st of August, the American Embassy stated that the elections of the 27th of July had been “freer than any other previous elections in the country. Although some irregularities existed, they weren’t numerous and couldn’t have affected the election results, nor curb the will of the Cambodian people”, said the Ambassador in a press release.