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Saturday 5 May 2012

Bail sought for Koh Kong quartet [Hun Sen's advisor can't buy justice!]

By Chhay Channyda 
Friday, 04 May 2012
Phnom Penh Post
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Screengrab taken from a security video

Bun Sokha (front, in towel), a deputy chief of staff in Prime Minister Hun Sen’s bodyguard unit, points while his bodyguard scuffles with a man in a Koh Kong hotel last month.


In Kim, defence attorney for Hun Sen aide Bun Sokha and his entourage, said yesterday that he will ask Koh Kong provincial court to grant bail to his four clients, adding that Bun Sokha had been “protecting himself”. [Protecting himself? Just watch this video].

According to the law, the request can be made once it is demonstrated that the foursome – accused of viciously beating four men at the Koh Kong City hotel on April 22 – no longer pose a threat to the victims.

“I will try to find witnesses and evidence to make an outside-detention request for my clients through legal procedure, and it is possible through injury law, because the victims just received minor injuries,” In Kim said.

Speaking with the Post on Tuesday, Koh Kong minor crimes police chief Lay Menglaing described the injuries of victim Phat Sokha – who had to be sent to Thailand for medical treatment – as “serious”.


Each of the four victims have now accepted compensation ranging from $3,000 to $5,000 from the accused.

The injuries in question were sustained at about 11pm at the Koh Kong City hotel, when one of the victims knocked on Bun Sokha’s door looking for a necklace he believed he had left there, prompting Bun Sokha’s wife to call her husband.

Upon returning to the hotel, Bun Sokha argued with the man and a security guard, before becoming furious and allegedly ordering his bodyguards to attack them and two others, using a pistol, an electric baton and a pair of handcuffs.

“In fact, knocking on the room door at 11pm is wrong, and it is an abuse of individual rights,” said In Kim, defending his client. “What Bun Sokha committed is to protect oneself after there is a knock on the door in his wife’s room at night.

“He [Bun Sokha] also accepted his guilt due to uncontrolled anger,” he added.

Reached yesterday, Lim Leang Se, deputy director of Hun Sen’s cabinet, said he wasn’t closely following the case and could not say if Bun Sokha would be punished internally.

“I don’t know if he will be demoted or not, but in general, if one person is sent to jail, he must be removed from his position,” he said.

Investigating judge Kham Sophary could not be reached for comment yesterday.

Bun Sokha, his bodyguards  Sum Veasna and Meng Chheangly, and driver Sum Chhaiya, face potential jail terms of three to five years if found guilty of “intentional injury”.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

as you can see in the video clips his mother in law also involve in the abuse because she is the one turn off the light for that crime she should be charge too

Anonymous said...

Broadcast this video nationwide...to let people see the cruelty of these regime...

Anonymous said...

knocking the door at 11 pm is stupid and need to be kicked and punched, but beating others that did not knocking on the door is wrong.

Anonymous said...

Prosecute these Huncent's thugs to the max that cambodian's laws allows
under civils laws and criminals laws.Teach these thugs that they Huncent body
gaurd's dogs can not be above the laws.Enforce your laws for the sake peace
loves and unity of all khmers in Cambodia.thanks to those whose got the courages
to fight back with these crooks...

Y.K.pro

Anonymous said...

Ah soy sopheap of dap-news shit keeps telling the people outside of Cambodia stop looking at Cambodia under the leadership of One-eyed gangster Hun Sen as a dark violent place ruled by violent people. Just look at this video to get the clear picture of what Cambodia really is. Violent body guards of Hun Sen himself violent violate the personal rights of the victims who were escroted by the Hotel Security guard to ask to look for his missing necklace. Look at that flat-assed chinky b*atch. Look at that Bun Sokha the fat-assed leech whose belly is full of fat and poop. May god damn them all to hell when they die.

Anonymous said...

How many shot were fired any memtioned!?!

Anonymous said...

To finish off Hun Sen is easy:

1. A brave heart lone matyre
2. A short gun
3. Try to sneak into a conference hall or official ceremony in coutryside attended by Hun Kwack (with go gun at this stage)
4. After being familair with the situation for a while, say a few months or a years
5. Reckon day, cooly attend the ceremny, wait coolly or walk cooly to him and give him the historical shot.
5. That's it, you are the HERO of all Khmer. Your name will be remembered among the Cambodian Greats like Kleing Moeung, Krala Horm Kong and Jayavarman Vii.

Anonymous said...

To finish off Hun Sen is easy:

1. A brave heart lone matyre
2. A short gun
3. Try to sneak into a conference hall or official ceremony in coutryside attended by Hun Kwack (with go gun at this stage)
4. After being familair with the situation for a while, say a few months or a years
5. Reckon day, cooly attend the ceremny, wait coolly or walk cooly to him and give him the historical shot.
5. That's it, you are the HERO of all Khmer. Your name will be remembered among the Cambodian Greats like Kleing Moeung, Krala Horm Kong and Jayavarman Vii.