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| Phnom Penh. 7/02/2014: Sok Chhun Oeung Vice-President of Independent
Democracy of Informal Association (IDEA) releases birds as a good luck
gesture when Civil Society Organisations (CSO), together with 23 monks
from the Independent Monk Network for Social Justice (IMNSJ),
demonstrate and pray at Preah Ang Dongker pagoda for the release of 23
people jailed after the violent crackdown of striking workers on January
2nd and 3rd. |
Praying For Prisoners…
John Vink | 7 Feb. 2014
About 50 members of the Civil Society Organisation, joined by 23
monks from the Independent Monk Network for Social Justice (IMNSJ),
monitored by nearly as much press and human rights observers, defied the
demonstration ban in Phnom Penh by praying at the Preah Ang Dongker
pagoda on the riverside to ask for the release of 23 workers, activists
and union leaders who were arrested during the violent crackdown of
striking workers by the army on January 2nd and 3rd which saw 5 workers
killed by bullets and numerous wounded.
According to the Cambodia Daily, and in a revealing attitude about
the authorities’ position regarding the responsibility of the deaths,
Brigadier General Keng Tito, the military police spokesperson, simply
dismisses a request for assistance by Richard Rogers, a lawyer appointed
by the opposition CNRP to investigate the possibility to file a
complaint at the ICC in The Hague, by saying: ‘We will not cooperate
with a foreigner’…
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| Phnom Penh. 7/02/2014: Thida Khus, Executive Director of SILAKA, joins
members of the Civil Society Organisations (CSO), together with 23 monks
from the Independent Monk Network for Social Justice (IMNSJ), who will
demonstrate and pray at Preah Ang Dongker pagoda for the release of 23
people jailed after the violent crackdown of striking workers on January
2nd and 3rd. |
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| Phnom Penh. 7/02/2014: Ath Thun, President of the Coalition of Cambodian
Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (CCAWDU), being interviewed by a
social media journalist when Civil Society Organisations (CSO), together
with 23 monks from the Independent Monk Network for Social Justice
(IMNSJ), demonstrates and prays at Preah Ang Dongker pagoda for the
release of 23 people jailed after the violent crackdown of striking
workers on January 2nd and 3rd. |
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| Phnom Penh. 7/02/2014: But Bunthen, together with 23 monks from his
Independent Monk Network for Social Justice (IMNSJ) and Civil Society
Organisations (CSO), demonstrate and pray at Preah Ang Dongker pagoda
for the release of 23 people jailed after the violent crackdown of
striking workers on January 2nd and 3rd. |
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| Phnom Penh. 7/02/2014: Journalists copying the statement made by Civil
Society Organisations (CSO), who, together with 23 monks from the
Independent Monk Network for Social Justice (IMNSJ), demonstrate and
pray at Preah Ang Dongker pagoda for the release of 23 people jailed
after the violent crackdown of striking workers on January 2nd and 3rd. |
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| Phnom Penh. 7/02/2014: Balloons being released by members of the Civil
Society Organisations (CSO) who, together with 23 monks from the
Independent Monk Network for Social Justice (IMNSJ), demonstrate and
pray at Preah Ang Dongker pagoda for the release of 23 people jailed
after the violent crackdown of striking workers on January 2nd and 3rd. |
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| Phnom Penh. 7/02/2014: Prak Sovannary, the wife of Voann Pov, arrested
union leader, talks to the press when Civil Society Organisations (CSO),
together with 23 monks from the Independent Monk Network for Social
Justice (IMNSJ), demonstrate and pray at Preah Ang Dongker pagoda for
the release of 23 people jailed after the violent crackdown of striking
workers on January 2nd and 3rd. |
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| Phnom Penh. 7/02/2014: Civil Society Organisations (CSO), together with
23 monks from the Independent Monk Network for Social Justice (IMNSJ),
pray at Preah Ang Dongker pagoda for the release of 23 people jailed
after the violent crackdown of striking workers on January 2nd and 3rd. |
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| Phnom Penh. 7/02/2014: Members of the Civil Society Organisations (CSO)
who, together with 23 monks from the Independent Monk Network for Social
Justice (IMNSJ), have demonstrated and prayed at Preah Ang Dongker
pagoda for the release of 23 people jailed after the violent crackdown
of striking workers on January 2nd and 3rd, burn joss sticks. |
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