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  • Cambodian labor leader Chea Vichea fatally shot in Phnom Penh

    01/27/2004 6:24:37 AM PST · by tdadams · 21 replies · 248+ views
    Associated Press ^ | Thursday, January 22, 2004
    Cambodian labor leader Chea Vichea fatally shot in Phnom Penh PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - A prominent Cambodian labor leader affiliated with the country's main opposition party was fatally shot Thursday on a street in Phnom Penh, in the latest in a series of suspected political killings. Chea Vichea, president of the Cambodian Free Trade Union of Workers, was shot at least twice in the chest at close range while reading at a roadside newsstand, said the owner of the newsstand, Va Sothy. "There were two assailants,'' Va Sothy said. "One was waiting on a motorcycle and the other walked...