Radio Free Asia
By Moeung Tum
5th November
Translated from Khmer by Khmerization
The majority of Khmer workers in Thailand have said that they are concerned about their safety, after eight Khmer workers went missing.
The eight Khmers, who originally came from Battambang province, went missing after they were arrested by Thai police on 17th of October.
Mr. Riem Kosal, one of the many workers who are currently still working in Thailand, claimed that those eight workers were arrested because they refused to work for ATM Construction company in Nonthaburi province and walked off the job to return back to Cambodia.
Mr. Riem Kosal said that a Cambodian recruiter has warned those workers that they have to work for that Thai company. He said: “They wanted to go back home and they telephoned to Brother Ly (the recruiter) and Brother Ly said that if they want to go home they are free to go. But after that he warned those eight workers by saying that ‘do you want to go to jail’?”
The same source said that those eight workers were: Chan, Trop, Sambath, Lin, Ngorl, Tan, Khim and one other unknown person. These people came from Maung Russey district of Battambang province.
Radio Free Asia cannot contact the Thai police from Suan Phlu Detention Centre and ATM Construction company for the information regarding the whereabouts of those eight workers at the time of this story going to air on Wednesday.
But Ly, the accused recruiter, has denied that he was the one who recruited those people to work in Thailand, but he said that those eight people had already returned home to their village. He said: “I have asked them and they said that they have already returned home. This morning some of them have already gotten back home. They entered Thailand legally, but the majority of them have run away from the companies whom they are supposed to work for and usually their employers withheld their passports because the majority of the people who worked for that companies have run away. Like these eight workers, they only arrived for 4-5 days and they run away.”
As of today, there is no independent information that can confirm the safety or the whereabouts of those eight workers.//
By Moeung Tum
5th November
Translated from Khmer by Khmerization
The majority of Khmer workers in Thailand have said that they are concerned about their safety, after eight Khmer workers went missing.
The eight Khmers, who originally came from Battambang province, went missing after they were arrested by Thai police on 17th of October.
Mr. Riem Kosal, one of the many workers who are currently still working in Thailand, claimed that those eight workers were arrested because they refused to work for ATM Construction company in Nonthaburi province and walked off the job to return back to Cambodia.
Mr. Riem Kosal said that a Cambodian recruiter has warned those workers that they have to work for that Thai company. He said: “They wanted to go back home and they telephoned to Brother Ly (the recruiter) and Brother Ly said that if they want to go home they are free to go. But after that he warned those eight workers by saying that ‘do you want to go to jail’?”
The same source said that those eight workers were: Chan, Trop, Sambath, Lin, Ngorl, Tan, Khim and one other unknown person. These people came from Maung Russey district of Battambang province.
Radio Free Asia cannot contact the Thai police from Suan Phlu Detention Centre and ATM Construction company for the information regarding the whereabouts of those eight workers at the time of this story going to air on Wednesday.
But Ly, the accused recruiter, has denied that he was the one who recruited those people to work in Thailand, but he said that those eight people had already returned home to their village. He said: “I have asked them and they said that they have already returned home. This morning some of them have already gotten back home. They entered Thailand legally, but the majority of them have run away from the companies whom they are supposed to work for and usually their employers withheld their passports because the majority of the people who worked for that companies have run away. Like these eight workers, they only arrived for 4-5 days and they run away.”
As of today, there is no independent information that can confirm the safety or the whereabouts of those eight workers.//
5 comments:
The authority need to question Mr. Ly. You arrest eight Thai workers and you ask them to release our Khmer workers, if they don't I guess these Thai workers will vanish too.
Cambodians must learn to proceed with police and their appropriate law enforcements to find their answers.
Some Khmer people told me that Thai are more crual than Pol pot.
This is the case.
There is no mass grave in Thailand, Ah Pleu (5:20)!
5:20 AM
Agree.
We should send ah 5:35 AM to Thailand and see if he will return alive.
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