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“The International Labour Organization (ILO) expresses its
grave concern regarding the decision of the These two men have been imprisoned for the murder of the
Cambodian trade union leader Chea Vichea since January 2004 based on
confessions allegedly elicited under police torture, allegations which
neither the Appeals Court nor the State Prosecutor challenged.
In 2004, immediately following the ruthless assassination of
Chea Vichea the ILO intervened with the Government urging it to
establish an independent and transparent investigation. In 2006, in the light of important allegations that the
investigation of the murder and the prosecution of Born Samnang and
Sam Sok Oeun were marked by numerous procedural irregularities, the
ILO Committee on Freedom of Association expressed its serious
misgivings as to the regularity of the trial and deplored the absence
of information from the Government on any attempts to carry out a
thorough, independent and impartial inquiry to determine the
perpetrators and the instigators of the crime. It urged the Government
to reopen the investigation into Chea Vichea’s murder. The ILO expresses its deep concern at the lack of Government
action in this regard, despite repeated appeals, and at the injustices
observed in the proceedings before the The ILO deplores the absence of clarity around the murder of
Chea Vichea which can only promote an atmosphere of impunity that
reinforces a climate of violence and insecurity extremely damaging to
the exercise of trade union rights and basic civil liberties and calls
upon the government to take immediate steps to rectify this injustice
through a full, independent and impartial inquiry.”
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