[Vietnamization] Vietnamese duo tried over alleged meth sale

 Background:

Demographic Colonization

The Nguyen Vietnamese settled their newly acquired Khmer territory in a manner that, again, has echoes in modern affairs. First they allowed their least desirable elements to open the territory--vagabonds, deserters, and those banished from their villages... [Now, also sex-traffickers... watch CNN's report "Every Day Cambodia] The state then selected formal settlers to farm the land and build new villages [reason why the Hun Sen CPP blatantly criminalized Sam Rainsy for shedding light on the problems in Svay Rieng]... Finally, demobilized soldiers were given land grants in the territory in return for their military service [Chapter 9 "Habits of War", When the War Was Over, Elizabeth Becker, p. 333]

See also CAMBODIA: A Shattered Society

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Deputy Defence Minister Nguyen Chi Vinh (R) meets with Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen in Phnom Penh yesterday. — VNA/VNS Photo Xuan Khu

Vietnamese duo tried over alleged meth sale

Phnom Penh Post | 13 November 2015

Two foreign women were tried by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court for allegedly selling 100 grams of methamphetamine to undercover police officers in Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district in May. 

Presiding judge Top Chhun Heng said that Vietnamese nationals Nguyen Thi Bir, 40, and Ngo Binh Ngoam, 53, colluded to sell the drugs, with Nguyen allegedly delivering the package of drugs to Ngo, who then sold it to the officer. 

[T2P Media: Why aren't they deported?  Why the double standard of speaking comfortably about deportation of all other illegal immigrants but not the ubiquitous illegal Vietnamese, save the ones sensitive to Hanoi (the Montagnards)?]

At trial, both women denied being drug traffickers, but admitted to working as middlemen for a Vietnamese dealer named “Pich Nhanh”, who allegedly offered each of the women a commission for finding customers, and who is still at large. 

“I was not the drug trafficker,” Ngo testified. “The reason why I decided to do this work is because Pich Nhanh promised to give me a $50 commission, but so far I didn’t receive a cent of money from him.” 

Under Cambodia’s Anti-Drug Law, the two face at least five years’ imprisonment if found guilty of the charge of drug trafficking. 

A verdict is to be delivered on December 3.