Arrest over Kratie gunfire

The long-time general manager of TTY Company, Un Piseth, was arrested on Saturday on suspicion he ordered gunfire that injured four protesters in Kratie province on January 18. Deputy provincial prosecutor Hak Hoin said the 47-year-old had been detained after questioning on Saturday over the shootings, in Snuol district’s Veal Bei village. “We issued a warrant to arrest and detain him in prison while we investigate further, because we feared he would threaten witnesses or run away,” Hak Hoin said. Un Piseth had denied ordering security guards to fire an AK-47 assault rifle into a crowd of about 400 villagers that had tried to block TTY’s bulldozers from clearing their cassava plantations, Hak Hoin said. TTY deputy-general Heng Sarath said the company would provide Un Piseth with lawyers because he had been the general manager “for a long time”. …

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