Si Heap, the mother of Boeung Kak activist Tep Vanny, is treated at Calmette hospital after she was shot in the head with a marble at Wat Phnom late last night

In a brutal show of force, dozens of police and thugs dressed in civilian clothes descended on a peaceful vigil at Wat Phnom last night, and set upon the roughly 20 protesters with slingshots, batons and electric prods.

At least six people were injured, while an additional five were treated at Calmette Hospital for slight wounds. An unknown number of people – journalists and rights workers among them – sustained injuries from electric prods and marbles fired from slingshots by men in facemasks who appeared to be under police protection.

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Source: (The Phnom Penh Post – September 23, 2013)