Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Cambodia's "One China Policy" is detrimental to abused Cambodian women stranded in Taiwan

Hor Nam Hong on Cambodian women stranded in Taiwan

30 Jan 2007
By Hassan
Radio Free Asia

Translated from Khmer by Socheata

Following news of Cambodian women being mistreated by their Taiwanese husbands or fiancés once they arrived in Taiwan, what plan does the Royal Government of Cambodia has to help protect the rights of its own citizens when they suffer hardship overseas?

Hor Nam Hong, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, told reporters that some of these women are also at faults: “We don’t know their exact number because (1) they left in secrecy on their own, and (2) they are tricked by people who cheated them and took them there. Therefore, we don’t have the exact number. It’s only when they show up in our embassy that we learn about it. In the past, we ask the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to transport some [women] from Malaysia, Indonesia. Now we have problems in Taiwan which we read about on the Internet, we are currently asking the IOM to investigate because we don’t have [diplomatic] relationships with Taiwan. Only NGOs can follow up with Taiwan.”

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

This kind of problem happeens all the time. There is no responsible for their working position. We should know and must behave like the other ambassy in our country. It is not new job..It 's similar... Why don't we behave the same way as the other do.

Anonymous said...

tHERE IS NO AMBASSY IN TAIWAN DOOD.

Anonymous said...

Yes, and no embassy in a lot of
other places.