All began whereas Sam Rainsy, being held on the sidewalk to the entrance of the factory, tempted to convince workers not to return to work so much that negotiations with the direction would not have place.
Sudden, a policeman in civilian approached toward him while shouting:
" now that is sufficient, one is going all to hunt from here "!
He threw himself then aggressively on the president of the PNK, tempting to reach him to the face of a punch.
Bodyguards interfered and policemen came then to surround the group while hitting all azimuths.
Sam Rainsy thanks to the protection of his bodyguards, has not been wounded and could have run away in his car whereas policemen extricated the shot in air.
On the other hand, Khieu Rada was more seriously touched to the face and the right arm. Not having had the time to rejoin the car, he tempted to run away on one motorcycle taxicab but found again taken to the trap by policemen who surrounded it. A soldier, catching him by the jacket forced him to descend and rushed on him to stroke of fist feet and under the look amused of the other representatives of the order in uniform and armed of AK 47.
The director of the penal police of Phnom Penh, Mok Chito, just in time arrived to put end to this passage to tobacco that took place to the middle of the avenue that takes to Takmao, very cluttered at this hour of the day.
It is the gory mouth that the Chief of Staff of the opposing party could finally have left later places some minutes under the protection of...
the police. " They should not have used their weapons nor should have hit these men.
If I had arrived in time, I would have asked representatives of the PNK to leave places merely as I had him make Wednesday already morning.
I am distressed of cannot have stopped (policemen) in time ", declared Mok Chito just after facts.
In end of morning, about hundred workers and workers in strike arrived to the domicile of Sam Rainsy and spent the day " there because it is the only place to which we thought when policemen charged ", they have explained. According to the president of the PNK, these overflows intervened because the strike makes this enterprise that accumulates thick delays lose money. They come to strength because it is the unique means that they found to make workers retake work. But I rise briskly against the fact that the police gets to the private investor service and I am going to carry complaint against the police for violation of several guaranteed rights by the Constitution ".
At 16 o'clock, an important police device understanding the anti-riot brigade among others was opened out before Tack Fat Garment but Sam Rainsy only made a brief apparition. According to several workers interrogated to their exit of the factory by a representative of the United Nation Center for human rights, elections would take place in the afternoon in order to elect representatives. " He/it seems however that these elections are only a parody because very few workers would have participated in the voting. The list of the 11 representatives is saying elected was then distributed without that no one is presented indeed physically ", t-it has explained, underlining that it had testimonies of employees only brought back.
Since Monday, Kan Mon, president of the Social Business Commission to the National assembly, should meet leaders of Tack Fat Garment in order to undertake negotiations and to put a term thus to this conflict that hard since
January 3.
Nay Rithy and Frédéric Amat