“If people read the chain of events that happened on that day, they would know that it was a planned assassination” . . .
| Chut Wutty's wife and three children |
Most of what the BBC journalist Guy De Launey said was very correct, except I disagreed with him when he said Chut Wutty was not deliberately targeted.
If Guy read what happened to Wutty in the past in almost the same spot he would not have said that. I believe Wutty was targeted because he had been to the same place around last year and they (police and provincial officials) threatened that if he 'ever comes back', they would kill him.
Just after Wutty was killed, Radio Free Asia interviewed one of Wutty's friends, I think it was Chhim Savuth, who said that last year Wutty led a group of tribal people to protest against logging in almost the same spot where he was killed. The police tried to arrest him on the spot, but he escaped to Koh Kong town, and they followed him, pointed the guns at him and arrested him there. He was only released after the tribal people fought back to rescue him. After he was arrested and released, he was sternly warned that if he ever comes back to the site again, he would be killed.
If people read the chain of events that happened on that day, they would know that it was a planned assassination because, first the police, who came drunk and wearing masks, wanted him to go with them to see their boss in Koh Kong. This was a ploy to bring him with them and kill him on the way in the jungle somewhere. But luckily, Wutty did not agree to go with them. And the way he was stopped from leaving the area with threatening manner and the way someone ordered the 2 journalists to be killed as well suggested that it was a planned assassination.
So, I believe that Guy did not get all the facts before he made the assumption that Wutty was not deliberately targeted. I think they planned to kill him based on the threats they gave Wutty not to come back and based on the actual accounts of witnesses of what happened on that day, like someone ordered the 2 journalists to be killed as well.
If Guy read what happened to Wutty in the past in almost the same spot he would not have said that. I believe Wutty was targeted because he had been to the same place around last year and they (police and provincial officials) threatened that if he 'ever comes back', they would kill him.
Just after Wutty was killed, Radio Free Asia interviewed one of Wutty's friends, I think it was Chhim Savuth, who said that last year Wutty led a group of tribal people to protest against logging in almost the same spot where he was killed. The police tried to arrest him on the spot, but he escaped to Koh Kong town, and they followed him, pointed the guns at him and arrested him there. He was only released after the tribal people fought back to rescue him. After he was arrested and released, he was sternly warned that if he ever comes back to the site again, he would be killed.
If people read the chain of events that happened on that day, they would know that it was a planned assassination because, first the police, who came drunk and wearing masks, wanted him to go with them to see their boss in Koh Kong. This was a ploy to bring him with them and kill him on the way in the jungle somewhere. But luckily, Wutty did not agree to go with them. And the way he was stopped from leaving the area with threatening manner and the way someone ordered the 2 journalists to be killed as well suggested that it was a planned assassination.
So, I believe that Guy did not get all the facts before he made the assumption that Wutty was not deliberately targeted. I think they planned to kill him based on the threats they gave Wutty not to come back and based on the actual accounts of witnesses of what happened on that day, like someone ordered the 2 journalists to be killed as well.
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