Police Raid Delivers Dozens of Foreign Nationals Straight to Airport

Sirens blared around 12:25 p.m. as three city buses escorted by armed police inched out of central Phnom Penh’s leafy St. 310.  Officers had spent the morning stationed at a high-rise apartment building on the street, blocking traffic on both Monivong Blvd. and St. 63. Police endlessly waved off arriving motorbikes and cars as delivery drivers accumulated at the roadblocks, phoning their customers to come out to pick up their food orders.

Within the police cordon, curious workers from the next-door Wownow delivery service office building smoked cigarettes and looked on amid a swarm of officers carrying electric shock batons. At least six marked police trucks were parked on the street.

The police officers could be overheard speaking on their walkie-talkies and to onlookers that this was the third batch of foreign residents being removed from the apartment block this week, and on previous days there had been scuffles. Some wondered what need there was spending so much time arresting “konchao,” a word that literally translates to children but refers to subordinate staff and is commonly used in Khmer translation of Chinese gangster movies.

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