Kampong Cham locals vow not to hurt ‘sorcerer’

Police in Kampong Cham’s Batheay district called a meeting yesterday in an attempt to put an end to dangerous allegations of sorcery against a man who has already suffered two vicious axe attacks as a result of them.

Sun Sath, 56, said yesterday that a neighbour in Troap commune’s Purusey village who blamed his supposed use of black magic for the death of his father attacked him before Khmer New Year with an axe.

Previously, in 2008, he said another villager and an accomplice struck him nine times with axes while he was walking alone in a paddy field. The man blamed him for his 10-year-old son’s death, Sath said.

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