ត្រូវដឹងអំពីចារឹកខ្លា
In an attempt to get the government of the dictator PM Hun Sen to release human rights workers from prison, the opposition party had collected and delivered to the King, a petition signed by tens of thousands of ordinary peoples, asking the King to help convincing the government to release those right workers. In response, the King wrote and asked the PM to take care of the situation, but without giving any specific instructions or requests.
It is possible that the King's letter to the prime minister also includes copies of the petition and peoples' signatures. As usual, PM Hun Sen took advantage of the ambiguity and interpreted that the King wanted to verify all those tens of thousands of signatures to insure that the opposition party did not submit faked signatures.
Now PM Hun Sen has ordered his police and military apparatus to go to individuals and verify their thumb prints, thus revealing the identities of everyone who had signed the petition, in essence creating a black book of peoples who do not support the dictatorial government of Hun Sen. This is a pure form of intimidation, a method employed by every known dictators.
What the King did, although innocent, is amount to feeding flesh to the tiger.
Sokha Ou-Uun