Keo Near (left) and Bun Chineda, two victims of last year’s shooting, speak to reporters outside Svay Rieng Provincial Court yesterday. Photograph: Vireak Mai/Phnom Penh Post

Observers were there, Puma was there, but once again there was no sign of deposed Bavet town governor Chhouk Bandith at the much anticipated re-run of his trial yesterday.

More than 15 months after he allegedly shot three women at a protest, the gallery at the Svay Rieng provincial court room sighed when presiding judge Leang Sour announced a stay in proceedings because Bandith’s lawyers were busy with other cases.

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Source: (The Phnom Penh Post – May 22, 2013)