CAMBODIA: POLICE OPEN FIRE TO BREAK UP A PROTEST NEAR A HOTEL WHERE OPPOSITION POLITICIAN SAM RAINSY TAKES REFUGE

Record ID: 534005

  • Title: CAMBODIA: POLICE OPEN FIRE TO BREAK UP A PROTEST NEAR A HOTEL WHERE OPPOSITION POLITICIAN SAM RAINSY TAKES REFUGE
  • Date: 7th September 1998
  • Summary: PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA (SEPT 7, 1998) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV/SV OF POLICE AND DEMONSTRATORS ON STREETS (4 SHOTS) 0.23 2. SV/SLV OF DEMONSTRATORS CHANTING (4 SHOTS) 0.52 3. MCU DEMONSTRATOR SAYING "I AM A REAL CAMBODIAN I MUST SUPPORT THE PEOPLE WHO DEMAND DEMOCRACY IN CAMBODIA" (ENGLISH) 1.04 4. SV OF DEMONSTRATORS CHANTING "SAM RAINSY" (3 SHOTS) 1.48 5. SV POLICE TRYING TO HOLD CROWD BACK 1.56 6. MCU POLICEMAN LOOKING AT CROWD 2.02 7. SV OF POLICE AND CROWD CHANTING 2.15 8. SLV CROWD RUNNING/POLICE HITTING DEMONSTRATORS WITH RIFLES 2.37 9. SV OF SECURITY (2 SHOTS) 2.52 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 22nd September 1998 13:00
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  • Location: PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA
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  • Country: Cambodia
  • Reuters ID: LVA85WVKBNDJ5TJ56G6R6LP06QO5
  • Story Text: At least one Cambodian opposition protester was killed on Monday when police opened fire to break up a protest near a hotel where opposition politician Sam Rainsy was taking refuge, according to eye witness reports.

    An opposition protestor was reported to have been killed on Monday (September 7) and another injured during a demonstration outside a hotel in Phnom Penh where opposition politician Sam Rainsy was taking refuge.

    Before the shootings, police used rifles as clubs to drive hundreds of Sam Rainsy supporters away from the Cambodiana Hotel.

    Rainsy, accused of trying to provoke the assassination of premier Hun Sen, is holed up in a U.N.office within the hotel.

    "One person was shot dead and one was wounded," said a human rights worker who declined to be identified.

    Jeering protesters threw stones at police shortly before the shooting, a Reuters reporter at the scene said.

    Automatic-rifle fire could be heard from the direction of the hotel later in the night, but it was unclear if there were any more casualties.

    Police and security spokesmen were not immediately available for comment.

    Former finance minister Sam Rainsy took refuge in the U.N.

    office after Hun Sen ordered his arrest for allegedly trying to provoke the premier's assassination and topple his government.


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