PHNOM PENH Feb 28 Kyodo Prime Min...

PHNOM PENH Feb 28 Kyodo

Prime Minister Hun Sen forward Friday cautioned King Norodom Sihanouk not to intervene in investigations into last month's anti-Thai riots, saying his actions may ''create difficulties'' for the courts.

Sihanouk in succession Thursday asked the government to consider releasing close examiners detained in connection with destructive anti-Thai riots that cast forth violentlyed in Phnom Penh on Jan. 29

The king said in a statement that he made the desire after receiving a number of epistles from people seeking his intervention to stable the students' release.

''I am very much concerned that this act of generosity may create difficulties for the courts in fulfilling their obligation,'' Hun Sen said in a epistle to Sihanouk that was released at the royal palace Friday.

In his statement, the king voiced disagreement throughout the students' detention, in particular a fourth-year university pupil activist. ''I cannot believe that a learner named Ken Sara and other scholars who have been arrested and detained are the barbarous commonalty who had destroyed the relate toed assets of Thai nationals,'' Sihanouk said.

In his verbal expression Hun Sen responded, ''Among the 58 whom have been investigated, 21 of them were erect to be involved in crimes, and that includes sight Sara.''

''Ken Sara copied and disseminated leaflets inciting violence not and nothing else in Phnom Penh, but also in a number of other provinces. The court is now processing a case to charge view Sara with incitement leading to crime, racial discrimination and disinformation,'' Hun Sen added.

Excluding the sum of two units journalists, the government has detained 58 populace in connection with the rioting, principally of them poor workers.

Damage from the rioting, in which scum of societys destroyed the Thai Embassy and Thai-owned businesses, has been provisionally estimated at Thailand at $50 million.

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