Quote ‘Out of Context’ Says Women’s Minister
Women's Affairs Minister Ing Kantha Phavi said yesterday that comments she made in a radio broadcast last week, in which she appeared to blame female Boeng Kak protesters for bringing police violence on themselves, were taken out of context from a radio interview given some months ago. A radio report broadcast last week included a clip of Ms. Kantha Phavi supposedly discussing a June 27 protest in which Boeng Kak demonstrators scuffled with police officers and a female protester, Bouv Sreysros, suffered a miscarriage after being kicked by police. ... "My interview was a few months ago, it was not in June. It was not after June 27. I think the RFA [Radio Free Asia] put my comment in a sensitive period which completely out of context," Ms. Kantha Pavi said. ... Clarifying her original point, the minister reiterated her conviction that if protesters demonstrate violently, they might provoke police retaliation. ...
