Victims wait on Bandith ruling
Yet another ruling in the tumultuous trial of former Bavet town governor Chhouk Bandith has been set, with the Appeal Court yesterday announcing a verdict date for next week.
After Bandith was convicted in absentia on the charge of unintentionally causing injury in June for non-fatally shooting three protesters at a demonstration of an estimated 6,000 people in February 2012, he filed an appeal from hiding.
Bandith was once again absent from court yesterday but his lawyer, Kay Visal, maintained his client’s innocence. …
Bandith, he said, had gone to the protest at the Kaoway sports factory in Svay Rieng province’s Manhattan Economic Zone after receiving an order from Deputy Prime Minister Men Sam An. …
In March the appeal court ordered he be retried after reinvestigating the case. …
May Titthara
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