Campaigners call for disappearance probe: Local and international civil society groups, including some of the world’s largest trade unions, are urging the government to immediately and thoroughly investigate the case of 16-year-old Khim Saphath, who mysteriously disappeared during a violent crackdown on protests in early January. Saphath was last seen lying on Veng Sreng Boulevard with blood pouring from his chest on January 3 amid clashes between striking garment workers and security forces, who shot dead at least four people. A friend and co-worker of Saphath, who saw him with the apparent bullet wound, told the Post on January 12 that he later heard from others that Saphath had been taken away in a military police truck. Despite separate investigations by local rights groups Adhoc and Licadho, no eyewitnesses have been able to corroborate this. But the 54 groups that signed yesterday’s open letter argue that given the context of Saphath’s disappearance, there are “reasonable grounds” to believe that he might have been subject to an “enforced disappearance”.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:24:44 +0000
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