A-C-C-O-U-N-T-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y: A word unknown by P.Penh police chief Touch Naroth

Touch Naroth: The UNACCOUNTABLE Phnom Penh police chief

Touch Naroth rejects accusations made [against the police]

25 Nov 2010
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Soy

Touch Naroth, the Phnom Penh city police commissioner, rejected all accusations made by the opposition and the civil society organizations. He declared that the deaths were not caused by the inability of the authority to reign in the situation, but that it was due to the stampeded by the huge crowd of people on a narrow bridge. He said: “I believe that the [police] authority completed their duty, they did good in helping and saving the victims on the Koh Pich bridge already. Personally, I worked hard to help them also, but we couldn’t help them on time because there was too many people, and the bridge was narrow so it was difficult to work there.”