Police Guns to Be Tested After Civilian Shootings
As part of the investigation into the shooting of bystanders and unarmed protesters in Stung Meanchey two weeks ago, the weapons used by police officers at the protest will be collected and compared to the bullets extracted from victims’ bodies, municipal police chief Chuon Sovann said Wednesday. “We have written a letter to National Police to confiscate weapons [from police] in each district who worked [at the protest], to analyze and compare them with the bullets that we got from the hospital,” Mr. Sovann said. “It will take a lot of time for the bullets to be tested…to find justice for the people and authorities and to see whether or not our police, without orders, had injured people,” he said. ... Sok Sam Oeun, executive director of the Cambodian Defenders’ Project, said he was skeptical of a probe in which police investigate themselves. “If it is not independent, it’s hard to know if it will work,” he said.
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