Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
The Rasmei Kampuchea newspaper reported that Thai black-clad soldiers opened fire on 5 Cambodian migrant workers when they returned back from a rice planting job in Aranyaprathet, Sa Kaew province, Thailand.
The shooting injured a young Cambodian migrant worker girl. The shooting took place at 7:45PM on 28 June 2009, near Palai village, Aranyaprathet district, Sa Kaew province which is located in front of Cambodia’s Poipet town. According to relatives of the victim, the young Cambodian teenager worker is 16-year-old Yen Sophy. She lives near Tumnub (dike) Korng, Tuol Prasat commune, Poipet city, Banteay Meanchey province.
The teenager was seriously injured on her left calf which was pierced by a bullet. According to the victim, she was among a group of five Cambodian migrant workers from her village. These workers went to plant rice in Thailand and they returned back home in the evening. At the location of the incident, about 150-meter from the Cambodian border, one Thai black-clad soldier among a group of many other soldiers opened fire and shot 6 bullets on the Cambodian workers with the intention of killing all these Cambodian workers.
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