Amid Sokha Probe, Maimed Starlet Speaks Out
Cambodia Daily |27 April 2016
Feeding rice porridge to her young niece outside Phnom Penh’s Olympic Market in 1999, Tat Marina, then the 15-year-old mistress of CPP official Svay Sitha, was dragged to the ground by the official’s wife, who then poured a liter of flesh-eating nitric acid on her.
The savage act of revenge carried out in broad daylight left Ms. Marina’s lips burned to blisters; the skin on her face, neck, back, chest and wrists melted. Doctors had to remove her ears, and the music video star could not talk for months after.
Police never executed an arrest warrant for the wife, Khoun Sophal, and Mr. Sitha—who in 2009 claimed to have been a victim in the case—was later promoted from undersecretary of state at the Council of Ministers to secretary of state, where he remains today.
Such undisguised impunity stands in stark contrast to the recent inquiry into deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha’s alleged extramarital affairs, with anti-terrorism police investigating, an opposition official arrested and the case already in the courts.
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