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PHNOM PENH — The Cambodian police have arrested a Vietnamese man accused of illegally taking ethnic minority people from Viet Nam’s Tay Nguyen (the Central Highlands) to Cambodia.
Lam Nguyen, 25, a member of the Khmer ethnic minority group in Viet Nam, was arrested on September outside the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Phnom Penh, according to Chhay Sinarith, director of the Cambodian Interior Ministry’s Information Department.
Nguyen allegally brought three ethnic minority highlanders from Viet Nam to Phnom Penh via Kompong Trach District in Cambodia’s Kampot Province. The suspect admitted that he had taken at least seven highlanders to the office of the UNHCR since July 2006 in return for thousands of dollars. Four of the seven people had been transported through Koh Thom District in Kandal Province on July 9 for a payment of US$1,500.
The Cambodian police said they had seized records of cash remittances which proved that ethnic minority highlanders living in the US had paid those who brought other ethnic minority people from Viet Nam’s Tay Nguyen region to the UNHCR office in Phnom Penh.
Deborah Backus, a spokeswoman from the Phnom Penh UNHCR Office, said that Nguyen came to the UNHCR office to apply for refugee status, but an interview proved that he was a member of the Khmer Krom group and therefore ineligible to claim refugee status.
Cambodian police are continuing their investigation.
Lam Nguyen, 25, a member of the Khmer ethnic minority group in Viet Nam, was arrested on September outside the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Phnom Penh, according to Chhay Sinarith, director of the Cambodian Interior Ministry’s Information Department.
Nguyen allegally brought three ethnic minority highlanders from Viet Nam to Phnom Penh via Kompong Trach District in Cambodia’s Kampot Province. The suspect admitted that he had taken at least seven highlanders to the office of the UNHCR since July 2006 in return for thousands of dollars. Four of the seven people had been transported through Koh Thom District in Kandal Province on July 9 for a payment of US$1,500.
The Cambodian police said they had seized records of cash remittances which proved that ethnic minority highlanders living in the US had paid those who brought other ethnic minority people from Viet Nam’s Tay Nguyen region to the UNHCR office in Phnom Penh.
Deborah Backus, a spokeswoman from the Phnom Penh UNHCR Office, said that Nguyen came to the UNHCR office to apply for refugee status, but an interview proved that he was a member of the Khmer Krom group and therefore ineligible to claim refugee status.
Cambodian police are continuing their investigation.
3 comments:
Ah Hun Sen! You are a viet's dirty dog!
some day Khmer will step on you betrayed family in tome and alive!
your grand children will pay for what you did to us!
You tay houng dog! Hun Sen
Someday our people will rise and take a stand. I could only hope the tribunal will start the ball rolling. If not someone will make the ultimate sacrifice.
The Vietcong just made up some shit and now they are pointing finger! I hope the Vietcong don't expect me to believe it!
Just listen to the Montagnard around the world and here their cry! This is a long running issues while the Vietcong contiue to abuse these poor helpless people!
Leave these helpless Montagnard people alone! Fucker!
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