05 August 2009
By Savyouth
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
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An elder SRP commune activist from Sotr Nikum district, Siem Reap province, was serious injured when, recently, a group of unknown people sneaked and beat him, with the intention of killing him.

64-year-old Oeur Sambuor, a SRP activist from Damrey Kaun village, Popel commune, Sotr Nikum district, who is currently being hospitalized , said on Wednesday morning that a group of unknown people beat him until he lost consciousness in the evening of 03 August when he couldn’t sleep inside his house, and he came out to sleep in another bed underneath the house.

Oeur Sambuor indicated that: “I couldn’t sleep in the early evening. At around 10PM, I left my grandchild to sleep inside the house and I came out to sleep outside because it is cooler. I didn’t know why they came to beat me up, they used a hoe to beat me.