'A 20 year-old student died in hospital after a fight between two gangs in the streets of Phnom Penh's Toul Kork district,' reported today's The Phnom Penh Post.He died from head wounds probably suffered as a result of being pelted with rocks. The victim's mother asked that police prosecute the case.
They have refused because they say, like his assailants, the dead man himself was a 'gangster.' So instead of a court appointment and a lengthy spell in prison, the offenders- once found- will be given "an education."
WHAT?
ReplyDeleteYou mean an education while in prison...like in Australia, where our taxes pay for an inmate's law degree?
No, the killer(s) won't be prosecuted for anything at all, nor will they spend anytime in prison.
ReplyDeleteA police 'education' might mean a stern talking to, a pointing out of the errors of ones way, a promise that a close eye will be kept, or perhaps, I suspect, a smack or two around the ears.