Military uniform on sales in Phnom Penh’s market
Frequently, I always have driven pass the small market- Teuk Thla market- located along Russian Blvd in Teuk Thla commune, Sen Sok district. When I went into this small market, I saw a lot of military equipments such as military dresses, ranks, belts, boots, caps and others being hanging in stores for sales.
At the first glance, we thought that only military officers who are customers have rights to buy these equipments but if we think deeply, all people can buy it without worrying anything. What is important is that if those who buy military uniform are not innocent people but they are thieves who buy these dresses in order to disguise as soldiers and robe people. Who will be responsible for social order? Who will be victims of these issues?
In general, I observed that when people meet armed forces with or without guns anywhere in Cambodia, they feel afraid because they really do not know well who is real and fake armed forces because all military uniforms have been sold anarchically in market.
I don’t know why local authorities allow vendors to sell the kind of army uniforms like that as we know that all military and soldiers have been equipped with these stuffs by government. I think that soldier and army dresses and equipments should not be on sales on the market. Only the government has rights to offer these apparels to armed forces, including military police, traffic policemen and so on.
As I remembered, during 90s, this market also had sold illegal weapons such as handguns, bullets and other ammunitions. Asking that whether these illegal guns and ammunitions are still on sales or not in the present?
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