General charged with killing wife, daughter
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A Cambodian general was charged with the murder of his wife and young daughter after being arrested in Thailand and deported at the weekend, a report said yesterday. Maj-General Kim Marintha was trying to cross into Laos via Thailand by car when he was ar
He appeared at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Sunday. A government official said Marintha fled Cambodia a month ago after his son-in-law was also arrested in connection with the murders. A third man is also wanted in the same case.
The decomposed bodies of 30-year-old Va Dary and the couple's six-year-old daughter were found in Kompong Speu province in March, the Cambodia Daily said. The woman had allegedly told her mother three days earlier that she wanted a divorce from the general, it said. The charge of premeditated murder carries a life sentence. A trial date has not been set yet.
