Khoun Leakhana & Ly Menghour
The Mekong Times
The recent controversial governmental ban on marriage between Cambodians and foreigners – designed to protect vulnerable young Cambodian women, but which nevertheless received a barrage of withering criticism from NGOs and angry expatriates – looks set to be thrown out with a new marriage sub-decree.
The April ban was implemented to prevent the allegedly frequent abuse – including physical maltreatment and being sold into brothels – of Cambodian women, who often marry foreigners with the hope that their life will be better in countries more affluent than their impoverished homeland.
The provisional ban was instigated after reports Cambodian women, who had married mainly Taiwanese, South Korean and Malaysian men, were being abused overseas. At the time of the ban, marriage brokers specializing in marriages with foreigners were ordered to close down.
“We urgently want to pass the sub-decree that lifts the ban … [because it will] legally prevent human trafficking, rape, violation and sexual exploitation, which we have previously been informed is happening [to Cambodian women],” Sak Setha, director general of the Civil Administration Department of the Ministry of Interior, said on Wednesday.
A working group comprised of the ministries of Interior, Foreign Affairs, Women’s Affairs and Justice was to meet today to discuss final refinements of the sub-decree, which will once again give the go-ahead for foreigners to marry Cambodians, but the meeting has now been delayed until next week.
“The inter-ministerial working group has approved [the sub-decree]. We held meetings to ask for approval of the draft-law and made a decision to submit it to the government,” said Sak Setha yesterday.
The sub-decree is expected to cover all problems and issues concerning marriage between Cambodians and foreign nationals.
Since the mid-1990s, when the Cambodian international marriage trend began en masse, around 5,000 young Cambodian women have been married off – frequently in anonymous “mail-order bride” style – to Taiwanese men alone.
The April ban was implemented to prevent the allegedly frequent abuse – including physical maltreatment and being sold into brothels – of Cambodian women, who often marry foreigners with the hope that their life will be better in countries more affluent than their impoverished homeland.
The provisional ban was instigated after reports Cambodian women, who had married mainly Taiwanese, South Korean and Malaysian men, were being abused overseas. At the time of the ban, marriage brokers specializing in marriages with foreigners were ordered to close down.
“We urgently want to pass the sub-decree that lifts the ban … [because it will] legally prevent human trafficking, rape, violation and sexual exploitation, which we have previously been informed is happening [to Cambodian women],” Sak Setha, director general of the Civil Administration Department of the Ministry of Interior, said on Wednesday.
A working group comprised of the ministries of Interior, Foreign Affairs, Women’s Affairs and Justice was to meet today to discuss final refinements of the sub-decree, which will once again give the go-ahead for foreigners to marry Cambodians, but the meeting has now been delayed until next week.
“The inter-ministerial working group has approved [the sub-decree]. We held meetings to ask for approval of the draft-law and made a decision to submit it to the government,” said Sak Setha yesterday.
The sub-decree is expected to cover all problems and issues concerning marriage between Cambodians and foreign nationals.
Since the mid-1990s, when the Cambodian international marriage trend began en masse, around 5,000 young Cambodian women have been married off – frequently in anonymous “mail-order bride” style – to Taiwanese men alone.
9 comments:
That will double confirmed that Ah Karmen in Cambodia are Fake Karmen. Do we need any more evidence that they are not real Karmen and they do not own Karmen's temple (Preah Vihear)?
Prove it if you are Khmer. You are a real ah Siam górilla.
9:45pm stop bullshit to the bullshitter,you have nothing to prove nothing you got it ?,your Thai people were and are thieves your Siam people came in to the land that your anceters forefather stole from Khmer khom=us to live and keep manepulate ,whole bunches of fuckin lie now aday karmen=khmer they smart enough to kick your thieves ass to the border of Burma and further more to Malasia border please stop follin ya self dumbo that enough is enough<< pook ai jone karmoy pen din khong karmen tarm pen khong ton,pook ai jeeb hai>> Stop fool yourself the nation of thives that stole Cambodian land and pretend you are the original land owner GO DOWN THIEF THAI!!!!
You're mistaken, the French are the thief. Thai people are angels who protect real Khmer from your infidel people who pretend to be Khmer and steal Khmer temples and lands from us. But your not getting away with it. Soon you will followed your people back to Europe. There is no room for infidels here.
Angle my ass ah pleu Thai what in your claim are death wrong ,if you retarded you should ask your parent that the international court returned our Preah Vihea back to the real owner Cambodia so
What that scam claim are base less beside proofing the true color of your
Cheaters ,our next generation use to hear from the says that Thai are thieves
They made up their land by stole from Laos ,Cambodia and Burma, now you are the fucking real thieves no shame ,no fame wanted the others that it is not belong to your own, wait and see how it will work for your Government and your people.
GO TO HELL AND NEVER RETURN AH THAI THIEF!!
Nope, Cambodia is just a land with a name. It can't build the temple, only people with hand and feet can build temple. And the temple was built by Khmer people, and the Khmer people owned the temple, not the French, Yuon, or Korean in Cambodia.
This is just another ploy to make more money for local official. The government can't or don't want to pay them.. so they make up this policy for the public to pay them. $20 or more dollar to get another "form" signed and date...
smart politics or smart economic..
Look like we have a stupid spider siamese here in this comment section. He tries to trap some insects but an elephant would poop on its web and it's dead. Yap, it's dead under the elephant poop.
Now, you pretend to be our brother lao with the elephant?
Get a life, Fake!
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