Phnom Penh (FN), June 15 – A senior government official who asked not to be named told Fresh News earlier this afternoon of June 15, 2016 that jails always wait for those who abuse Cambodia’s laws regardless of those people want or do not want them. 

The official also hinted that the petition submitted by the opposition party to the King was found by the Ministry of Interior with more and more irregularities ranging from copying to one person giving many thumbprints and hence jails are just waiting for them.

The reaction by the senior official was in response to a statement made earlier by the Cambodian National Rescue Party’s lawmakers that they were prepared to go to jails if found guilty of petitioning the King.

It should be recalled that a commission was formed on June 6, 2016, with Senior General Neth Savoeun, National Police Commissioner General, as the chairman, to examine the thumbprints attached to the petition.

According to Senior General Kang Sokhan, Deputy Commissioner General of the National Police, and deputy chief of the commission for investigation and forensic examination of thumbprints, the results of many days of investigation into the CNRP petition reveal that one thumbprint has been printed on many names, while many other thumbprints do not have clear identities nor have clear addresses and that around 30 percent of the thumbprints have been examined and based on that, the commission can say there have been a lot of irregularities with the thumbprints on the petition.

=FRESH NEWS