November 7, 2007
Story : Nutphumin
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Pattaya Daily News (Thailand)
KHMER POPULATION INCREASE IN PATTAYA
Immigration police arrested illegal Khmer families. Police declared that the number of illegal foreigners is increasing in Thailand. Many of them with infants are beggars in the street.
On 6 November 2007, at 10.00AM, Police Captain Archeep Jaruen-santisuk, Deputy Chief Inspector, Pattaya immigration, had detected that there were many Khmer people, had slipped into the country to work illegally. Police found Khmer men working in the fishing boats and in many other jobs. Most of them had brought their wives along and rented rooms around Bangsaray, Sattahip, Chonburi. They had settled down in Thailand and started to increase the population. Many of them are beggars in Pattaya and near by to cause problem and annoy the tourists.
Lately, Pattaya immigration police raided to a fisherman camp, Moo 1, Bangsaray, Sattahip, where the illegal Khmers had rented rooms to stay with their wives and children. Khmer families with their infants, altogether thirty people were arrested. Police found that they have entered to Thailand illegally with their wives and started expanding their families. Some Khmer men were alert and escaped, leaving their wives and children there. Police had taken them to Sattahip police station in order to proceed of sending them back to Cambodia.
Police Captain Archeep declared that there were many young children coming out to beg for money from tourists and they were mostly Khmers. Some of them had arrived with their parents and some of them were born in Thailand. However, there is human trafficking around. The young children could be stolen and then forced to beg in the street. Whether those are their real children or not must be investigated. Police will get rid of illegal workers in every area as soon as possible.
On 6 November 2007, at 10.00AM, Police Captain Archeep Jaruen-santisuk, Deputy Chief Inspector, Pattaya immigration, had detected that there were many Khmer people, had slipped into the country to work illegally. Police found Khmer men working in the fishing boats and in many other jobs. Most of them had brought their wives along and rented rooms around Bangsaray, Sattahip, Chonburi. They had settled down in Thailand and started to increase the population. Many of them are beggars in Pattaya and near by to cause problem and annoy the tourists.
Lately, Pattaya immigration police raided to a fisherman camp, Moo 1, Bangsaray, Sattahip, where the illegal Khmers had rented rooms to stay with their wives and children. Khmer families with their infants, altogether thirty people were arrested. Police found that they have entered to Thailand illegally with their wives and started expanding their families. Some Khmer men were alert and escaped, leaving their wives and children there. Police had taken them to Sattahip police station in order to proceed of sending them back to Cambodia.
Police Captain Archeep declared that there were many young children coming out to beg for money from tourists and they were mostly Khmers. Some of them had arrived with their parents and some of them were born in Thailand. However, there is human trafficking around. The young children could be stolen and then forced to beg in the street. Whether those are their real children or not must be investigated. Police will get rid of illegal workers in every area as soon as possible.
21 comments:
You see what I mean by being immoral to the Thai? Now those people will suffered from being jobless in Cambodia.
If Cambodian government strong enough ,with a lot help from countries around the world Cambodia better off this social problems,but instead they are taking all that helping money to enrich them selves let it own citizen turn to be the beggars in it neighboring country,sad to see this.
Fuck Thai uneducated people,
I was on a package tour with a local khmer company. In Pattaya, I was queuing up, awaiting an amusing game in the sea of Pattaya. One thai female worker asked me to go forward. While I walked up, a male Thai worker pushed me backward harshly. I was so much angry since they acted like I was a beggar. Shit. Fuck the Khmer companies who just bring money for the Thai, but let them look down our own nationals. These companies should make a deal with anyone or those thais who respect us humanly.
On another occasion, while I was in Bangkok taxi, a taxi driver asked me where i was from. I said Cambodia. They asked further if I come there to be a worker? He started to look up and down by looking down on me as a Khmer. Not until I informed him of going to Bangkok Hospital, one of the expensive in Thailand, which normally could not be afforded by this Taxi Driver, he tried to great me and take care of me.
At Poipet border check point, they looked at our skin. If we are dark or dress improperly, Khmer people are asked to show off how much we have money (normally 3000baths as a minimum), without so, we are not allowed to get in (Sic).
This is how Thai treated us. Thai look down on us because many of us are poor and many of us work for them as workers, beggars...etc. Shit the Thai uneducated people. If the government could not find work for our own people or make them have a moral and respectful jobs, Our Cambodians’ morals are at very low level and to be looked down by those Stupid Thai.
Monyrath
Nope, the government did not steal any money. It was Ah Khmer-Yuons who did that to make Khmer people suffer.
Yes, 4:58, Thai is also westerner trained just like some of our assholes who always look down on our Khmer people. And to make the matter worse, they don't even know what they are talking about half of the time.
Hun Sen is not doing a good in helping Cambodian people!
Corruption, corruption, and corruption nonstop!
The fucken Thaicong always used the so called illegal dirt poor Cambodian people issue in Thailane to trash AH HUN SEN reputation all the time but AH HUN SEN never give a fuck!
So, what do you want Hun Sen to do for those people? They are too demanding. I can't believe they are complaining about not being able to celebrate Khmer Holidays in Thailand. Well, now they can celebrate all the Holidays that they were asking for, and I hope that they are happy with it now.
Investors can't create jobs when they have to pay much money on briberies to the corrupted government.
No, we never heard them complaining about it. And even so, they still make out on our low tax break.
You Animal Viet troller @5:05PM,5:09PM,7:29PM, is from one same Viet troller. You must know that I am just like your shadow...I'll be everywhere you are here on KI-Media. I am in your face until you disappear from KI-Media. You animal Viet troller can no longer pretend to be khmer speaking for Khmer. I know who you are. I know how you write. You can no longer loiter, litter, or spam KI-Media...
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Now, go home Animal Vietcong!
Let be fair and all the Thaicong can't do the same thing in Cambodia! If they do and deport them!
http://www.somaly.org
October 07 2007
Somaly Mam Foundation to Launch at United Nations on November 7th
From The Sunday Times
December 4, 2005
A Life in the Day: Somaly Mam
The 34-year-old Cambodian leads the AFESIP association, which rescues girls and young women from brothels in Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. She is separated from her husband and lives near Phnom Penh with her children: Melissa, 14, Adana, 9, and Nicolai, 3
Interview: John Follain
I go first to our shelter where the girls we've rescued live. They can be hard to manage — they want to break everything — but I take them in my arms and we understand each other. In Cambodia, parents sell their children when they're five or six for as little as £60. Girls prostitute themselves for less than £1.
It's what I've been through that gives me the strength to fight back. I don't know who my parents are. As a child I remember being cold all the time. I was abandoned and raped when I was 12. Two years later I was sold off and forced to marry. My husband would get drunk, he beat me and raped me, he'd fire bullets which passed just by my head or my feet. I took the gun and shot him in the foot. I was 15. I didn't want to kill him, just hurt him as he had hurt me. I'm more of a Buddhist now, and I try to be reasonable. But when I see rapists I see red. I'm not perfect.
My husband sold me to a brothel. I had to accept five or six clients a day. Once a client called me and another girl; he said he was with just one other man. In fact, there were 20 of them; they treated us so badly I wanted revenge. I wanted to kill the man who called us. Then I thought his family would suffer, so I left him alone.
People laugh about prostitution being the oldest job in the world, but I've seen so many awful things. Girls are chained up and beaten with electric cables; one had a nail driven into her skull for trying to escape. Another, Thomdi, was sold to a brothel when she was nine. When I saw her in the street she was 17 and sick with Aids and TB. She had lots of abscesses and the people at the hospital insulted her and refused to take her in. So I took her home and washed her. She started to get better. Then I had to go abroad. She told me she would die without me, but I had to go. I was buying presents for her when I got the call that she had died. I still feel guilty about her death.
Around mid-morning I go to the offices. I'm back on the computer and I check on the girls' health, and how they are doing at their jobs. The association has a staff of 134, including doctors, psychologists and teachers. Since we set it up eight years ago, we've saved over 3,000 girls and found them normal work.
Our job is dangerous. Once this man who ran a brothel put a gun to my temple; he was angry that I'd talked to his girls. He told me I was a bitch, that he was going to kill me. I talked to him — I knew he wouldn't kill me. People with a gun kill you or they don't — they don't pretend. After, I got him arrested. I don't have bodyguards — I want to be free.
For me, meeting a politician or a donor is much worse than having a gun pointed at me. I didn't go to school, I don't find it easy to talk and behave properly with a bureaucrat. I have to say the truth, which hurts, but if you don't tell the truth, nothing changes.
I'm usually too busy to have lunch, but if I eat something it'll be boiled white rice and fried vegetables. Around 2pm, we hold meetings, we talk about the girls who are ill or have difficulty finding a place in society. And there are always e-mails — I get 200 to 300 a day.
The hardest thing for me to cope with is corruption. I filmed a police raid on a brothel — there was cocaine there. But then in the courts the judge said it wasn't cocaine, it was flour. We once caught a German paedophile on camera, but the courts let him off with a £4,000 fine. He went back to his country. Is that fair?
Last December we rescued 89 women and children in a police raid on a big hotel. But the pimps went to our shelter and grabbed them back. The next day they threatened to come back with grenades. I phoned everyone I could for help, but I was told I'd gone too far — I had bothered powerful people. I make a point of going to see the criminals who threaten me. I have to show them I'm not afraid by talking to them.
I get desperate at times; I tried to commit suicide two or three times. When things are overwhelming, I try to be alone somewhere dark and quiet. I can be bad company; everything makes me angry. I'm separated from my husband and I don't think I'll have another relationship. I'm not young any more; I don't want to make a man unhappy.
One or two nights a week I meet girls in brothels or on the streets. I talk to them and tell them what we could do for them. But usually I go home at 7 to cook for my children. They are in bed by 10, then it's quiet and I go back to my e-mails.
I can be at the computer until 2am.
I don't sleep well. Especially when I have to meet journalists and they ask me about my past. When I close my eyes I feel raped and dirty. I'm very weak. At night when I don't sleep, I think that right at that moment many children are being raped. The pills I used to take don't work any more. But I can get by with two or three hours' sleep. I don't know what being happy means. But I like seeing the girls smile. That makes me feel good."
The Road to Innocence, by Somaly Mam, will be published by Virago next year. E-mail: somaly.mam@afesip.org
If it's good at home; Cambodians did not have to go to foreign land to make a living and being treated like shit.
Well, the reason you are treated like shit is because foreigner lack moral value, and we don't want to bring their tradition here.
These dirt poor Cambodian people are hurdle like animal into a tiny truck! Fucken Thaicong!
Well, if you are concern about that, who's stopping you from getting them a taxis.
You Animal Viet troller @7:29PM,10:54AM, is from one same Viet troller. You must know that I am just like your shadow...I'll be everywhere you are here on KI-Media. I am in your face until you disappear from KI-Media. You animal Viet troller can no longer pretend to be khmer speaking for Khmer. I know who you are. I know how you write. You can no longer loiter, litter, or spam KI-Media...
Now, Go home Animal Viet troller!
Now, go home Animal Vietcong!
To 10:54AM
Fucken Vietcong dog eater! Do you see that there are small children in the fucken truck without proper seat belt! These are little children that I am talking about! Ok! Mother fucker! I like to see your mother fucker eject from a truck and have a car run over your fucken head! You can say that I care more about little children than your fucken arse and I if I have a gun and I'll blow your fucken head off the fucken truck!
Yeah but that's how we normally transport people in the third world, and we have done it for centuries now. So stop being paranoid, will ya?
will ya my ass!!!
will ya my ass!!!
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