(Posted by CAAI News Media)
After Phnom Penh Appeal Court on Wednesday upheld the Phnom Penh Municipal Court’s ruling in the case of Khe Dara, a woman who illegally fired a pistol and threatened police and journalists on September 28, more than 2,000 local citizens expressed their support for Cambodian Prime Minister on Tuesday in Phnom Penh, according to a local official.
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court sentenced her to her to 18 months imprisonment and fined her CR1 million for the illegal use of a firearm.
Not only premier Hun Sen reacted Khe Dara’s crimes, but also much of Cambodian society, from top leaders and officials of the Cambodian Government, to ordinary members of the public, reacted to the heinous threats that typify the pernicious Cambodian culture of impunity.
“Following the premier’s remarks related to Khe Dara, more than 2,000 residents of Boeung Tompon Com-mune thumbprinted a statement of support for the premier’s good decision ,” Sous Sarin, Boeung Tompon commune chief, told DAP News Cambodia on Thursday. “All citizens thought that the premier’s remarks and suggestions were aimed at stopping gangster’s actions and rich people’s crimes, even though they are powerful and wealthy,” the commune chief added.
The Phnom Penh Court on Wednesday ruled to charge Khe Dara with the addition crimes of entering a house illegally and attempted murder.
On 28 September, 2009, Khe Dara, 30, fired several times and angrily cursed police and journalists in front of Sonsom Kosal pagoda, in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey District. The Phnom Penh Municipal Court convicted only on the charge of illegal gun usage, so the premier recommended more charges.
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