Buddhist monk 'confesses' to rape of British tourist

A Buddhist monk has been arrested for allegedly raping a British tourist in Cambodia
ကေမၺာဒီယားကဗုဒၶဘာသာဘုန္းႀကီးတစ္ပါးၿဗိတိသွ်တုိးရစ္တစ္ေယာက္ကုိမုဒိန္းက်င္.မွဳၿဖင္.အဖမ္းခံရ

20 Nov 2008

တစ္ၿခားဘာသာ၀င္ေတြရဲ.အၿပစ္ေတြကုိပဲတင္ေနတယ္လုိ.မထင္ရေအာင္ဒီတစ္ပတ္ေတာ.ဗုဒုၶဘာ
သာ၀င္ေတြရဲ.အေႀကာင္းလဲေရးပါဦးမယ္။

ကေမၺာဒီးယားနုိင္ငံမွာအသက္၁၇ ႏွစ္ရွိဗုဒၶဘာသာကုိရင္ႀကီး(ရဟန္းၿဖစ္ဖုိ.အသက္မၿပည္.ေသးလုိ.
ကုိရင္ႀကီးပဲေခၚရတာပါ။နုိင္ငံၿခားသားမ်ားကေတာ.သိႀကမည္မဟုတ္ပါ။)တစ္ပါး ရဲ.အဓမၼၿပဳက်င္.
ၿခင္းကုိခံခဲ.ရတာကုိတုိင္ႀကားသတင္းပုုိ.ဖုိ.ရစခန္းကုိေရာက္လာတဲ. အသက္၃၉ ႏွစ္ရွိၿဗိတိန္လူမ်ဴိး
အမ်ဴိးသမီးဟာေႀကာက္ရြံ.လုိ.တုန္လွဳပ္ေခ်ာက္ၿခားလုိ.ေနပါတယ္လုိ.ရဲတပ္ဖဲြ.ရဲ.အဆုိအရသိရွိရ
ပါတယ္။ကုိရင္ႀကီး Thorn Sophpan ကလည္းထုိၿပစ္မွဳကုိ၀န္ခံခဲ.ၿပီးသူ.ကုိခ်က္ခ်င္းဖမ္းၿပီးလူ၀တ္
 လဲလုိက္ပါတယ္လုိ.ရဲအဖဲြ.ကဆက္ေၿပာပါတယ္။
ကုိရင္ႀကီးဟာထုိအမ်ဴိးသမီးကုိ Phnom Sam Pov ေတာင္ထိပ္ေပၚရွိသဘာ၀လွဳိင္ဂူေတြကုိလုိက္လံ
ၿပသေနစဥ္မွာအဓမၼၿပဳက်င္.ခဲ.တယ္လုိ.ၿမိဳ.နယ္ရဲမွဴး Mey Chhengly က ဆုိပါတယ္။
ထုိအမ်ဴိးသမီးအေနနဲ.ကုိရင္ႀကီးကုိလုိက္လံၿပေပးဖုိ.မဖိတ္ေခၚပဲၿငင္းဆန္ခဲ.ေပမယ္.ထုိကုိရင္ကအတင္း
လုိ္က္လာခဲ.တာလုိ.ဆုိပါတယ္။ထုိအဓမၼၿပဳက်င္.မွဳဟာကေမၺာဒီးယားနုိင္ငံအေနာက္ေၿမာက္ပုိင္းရွိ
Battambang ၿပည္နယ္မွာၿဖစ္ပြားခဲ.တာပါ။
သူမကုိအဓမၼလည္းက်င္.၊လက္ကုိင္မုိဘုိုင္းလ္ဖုန္း၊ကင္မရာနဲ.ပုိက္ဆံေတြပါလုယက္ခုိးယူသြားတဲ.ကုိရင္
ကိုၿပန္လည္ခုခံတုိက္ခုိက္လုိ.ညာဘက္ေၿခေထာက္ပါထိခုိက္ဒဏ္ရာရသြားပါတယ္။
ကေမၺာဒီးယားနုိင္ငံမွာေတာ.ဗုဒၶဘာသာဘုန္းႀကီးေတြဟာအမ်ဴိးသမီးေတြကုိမဖြယ္မရာၿပဳမွဳေတြနဲ.မ
ႀကာခဏစြပ္စြဲေၿပာဆုိခံေနရပါတယ္။
ယၡဳသီတင္းပတ္အတြင္းမွာပဲတစ္ၿခားဘုန္းႀကီးႏွစ္ပါးဟာလဲစာသင္ေက်ာင္းအခန္းတြင္းမွာဆယ္ေက်ာ္
သက္မိန္းကေလးႏွစ္ေယာက္ကုိအဓမၼၿပဳက်င္.မွဳနဲ.အဖမ္းခံခဲ.ႀကရပါတယ္။
လြန္ခဲ.တဲ.ႏွစ္ဇန္န၀ါရီလမွာေတာ.ဘုန္းႀကီးတစ္ပါးဟာကေမၺာဒီယားနုိင္ငံကနာမည္ေက်ာ္အန္ေကာ
၀ပ္ေက်ာင္း၀န္းထဲမွာအသက္ ၈ ႏွစ္သာရွိေသးတဲ.ၿပင္သစ္လူမ်ဴိးကေလးမကေလးကုိမဖြယ္မရာၿပဳ
လုပ္မွဳနဲ.အဖမ္းခံခဲရၿပန္ပါတယ္။ႀသဂုတ္လမွာေတာ.အသက္ ၁၀ ႏွစ္ရွိကေလးမတစ္ဦးကုိအဓမၼၿပဳ
က်င္.ၿပီးသတ္ၿဖတ္မွဳၿဖင္.ဘုန္းႀကီးတစ္ပါးကုိဖမ္းဆီးလူ၀တ္လဲခဲ.ရပါတယ္။
သကၤန္း၀တ္ဘုန္းႀကီးအတုအေယာက္ေတြဟာလူေတြဆီကအလွဴေငြ၊ပစၥည္းေတြကုိလွည္.ပတ္
လိမ္လည္ေကာက္ခံၿခင္.သူေတာ္ေကာင္းေယာက္ေဆာင္၍ဓါးၿပမွမွဳေတြကုိလည္းက်ဴးလြန္ေနႀက
ပါတယ္။
ဗုဒၶဘာသာဟာရဟန္းေတာ္ေတြကုိကုိယ္ႏွဳတ္ႏွလံုးသံုးပါစလံုးၿဖဴစင္သန္.ရွင္းေအာင္သြန္သင္ၿပသ
ေပးတဲ.ဘာသာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္။အခုလုိၿပစ္မွဳေတြက်ဴးလြန္ေနႀကတာ.ကုိးကြယ္ရာဘာသာတရားကုိထိ
ခုိက္တာေပါ.။ဒါေႀကာင္.ဒီလုိရဟန္းအတုအေယာင္ေတြကုိဖမ္းဆီးလူ၀တ္လဲၿပစ္ဖုိ.လုိအပ္တယ္လုိ.
ကေမၺာဒီးယားနုိင္ငံမဟာနိကာယသံဃဂုိဏ္းဥေသွ်ာင္ Nun Nget ကေၿပာဆုိမိန္.ႀကားခဲ.ပါတယ္။
အဆုိပါအဓမၼၿပဳက်င္.တဲ.ကုိရင္ႀကီး Thorn Spphoan  ဟာသာသနာ.ေဘာင္ကုိ၀င္ေရာက္တာရက္
ပုိင္းလပုိင္းပဲရွိပါေသးတယ္တဲ.။ကေမၺာဒီယားနုိင္ငံမွာလည္းလူငယ္ေတြဟာမိဘေက်းဇူးသိတတ္တဲ.
အေနနဲ.၎၊ဗုဒၶဘာသာကုိေလ.လာခ်င္လွ်င္ေသာ္လည္းေကာင္းတစ္သက္လံုးမဟုတ္ပဲခဏတာမွ်
ဒုလႅဘရဟန္း၀တ္၊ကုိရင္၀တ္ေလ.ရွိႀကပါတယ္တဲ.ခင္ဗ်ား။က်ြန္ေတာ္တုိ.နုိင္ငံမွာလုိေပါ.ေလ။

 

According to police the 39-year-old victim was trembling with fear when she reached the police station to report the attack on Tuesday afternoon. The monk, 17-year-old Thorn Sophoan, was immediately arrested and defrocked. Police said that he has confessed to the crime.
"While the monk was guiding the British woman to see caves on the top of Phnom Sam Pov mountain, he raped her," the local police chief Mey Chhengly said.
The victim reportedly told the monk that she did not want a guide but he insisted on following her anyway. The attack took place in Battambang province in the north west of Cambodia.

The victim's right leg was injured as she attempted to fight off her attacker, who also stole her money, camera and mobile telephone.

Buddhist monks in Cambodia are frequently accused of sexual assaults.

This week two other monks were arrested for allegedly raping two teenagers in a school classroom.

In January a monk was arrested for allegedly molesting an 8-year-old French girl at the famous Angkor ruins and in August a monk was arrested and defrocked after being accused of the rape and murder of a 10-year-old child.

There is also a problem with fake monks, who police say deceive the public into giving alms or disguise themselves as holy men before committing crimes such as armed robbery.

"Buddhism educates monks to have physical, verbal and mental purity," said Nun Nget, supreme patriarch of the Mohanikaya Buddhist sect in Cambodia. "[Such crimes] heavily affect our religion, which is why it is necessary to defrock bad monks."

Thorn Sophoan had been a monk for only a few days month before he was arrested. Many young Cambodians become monks for short periods of time without necessarily devoting their lives to the clergy. They could be briefly ordained to show gratitude to their parents, honour a dead relative, or study Buddhism.