Probe indicates criminal was a strike gentleman, as rights groups urge sharp research
PUBLISHED: 8 Jan 2025 at 12: 06
A Thai court on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for an alleged hunter who fatally shot a former Cambodian opposition lawmaker in a brutal attack in Bangkok’s filled old quarter, according to authorities.
A waiting shooter who fired three shots on Lim Kimya, 74, who had arrived in Thailand just days before, was shot dead, according to a police official, who declined to be identified because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
Lim Kimya, a Thai and French national, had flown from Cambodia to Thailand on Tuesday at noon with his wife and brother and boarded a vehicle to Bangkok just before he was shot dying, according to the standard.
A 41-year-old motorbike taxi driver has been on an arrest warrant, according to Pol Col Sanong Saengmanee, director of Chana Songkhram police, according to Pol Col Sanong Saengmanee, director of Chana Songkhram authorities.
Pol Lt Gen Siam Boonsom, the Metropolitan Police Bureau director, said an investigation so much indicated the criminal was a weapon for use.
We have proof of the identity of the offender, the statement read. Right then, we are working to assault him”, he told reporters.
Prior to the 2018 election, Lim Kimya was a member of the popular opposition known as the Cambodia National Rescue Party ( CNRP ). He had been removed from power as a result of an alleged treason plot. The ruling Thai Women’s Party claimed at the time that the charges brought against it were made up.
As a police attempted to revive him while he lay on his back, covered in a violet polo shirt and white clothes, he was surrounded by a pool of blood, according to a photograph shared by first responders. A little blue suitcase lay outside.
” Thai authorities should promptly and thoroughly investigate and prosecute those responsible”, Bryony Lau, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch ( HRW) said in a statement.
Previous CNRP people, including those who reside in neighboring Thailand, have been harassed, intimidated, and surveyed by the Cambodian government.
According to a spokesman for the Thai government, Pen Bona said the killing was in the hands of the authorities of a sovereign state called Thailand. He said the Thai government was often accused by criticism “extremists” of being behind situations.
The Foreign Affairs Ministry of Thailand and the embassies in Cambodia and France did not respond to individual requests for comment. ( continues below )
Blood stains the ground at the scene where a former politician with now-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party ( CNRP ) Lim Kimya, 74, was shot dead, in Bangkok on Wednesday. ( Photo: Reuters )
Cambodia’s government, led by the CPP for more than four decades, has conducted a brutal, years-long assault on its competitors, with values of lawmakers and activists jailed, some in tribunal, and lots more fleeing into captivity. It has denied persecuting the criticism.
Lim Kimya’s opposition party did not have a dominant presence. Police said they were also looking into the matter of his death.
The believe in the murder case is depicted in the image.