Interior Minister Sar Kheng has ordered all mobile checkpoints on roads and waterways in the country to be suspended immediately. Mr Kheng revoked the right of administrations in the capital and at provincial, city and district levels to place checkpoints. Ministries and institutions will also be barred from setting them up.

 

According to a letter on the issue of checkpoints signed by Mr Kheng, checkpoints placed by various authorities at different levels were a burden for citizens, and were affecting their freedoms and rights. “The elimination of checkpoints is aimed at implementing government policy to provide services and to improve the public’s standard of living by promoting a daily life free of disturbances,” the letter said.

 

The letter also said that if a situation calls for the implementation of checkpoints, relevant institutions or authorities will have to submit a request to a command committee, which would scrutinise each request to avoid anarchy on the roads and waterways. Kin Seyma, a taxi driver between Phnom Penh and Kratie province, said he had not seen a mobile checkpoint in the past few days.

 

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6 hours ago, geovalin said:

“The elimination of checkpoints is aimed at implementing government policy to provide services and to improve the public’s standard of living by promoting a daily life free of disturbances,”

The opposition political party must have been viewed as a checkpoint.

Even under the best attention, good things may come up occasionally