IN CUSTODY: Cambodians detained following a crackdown on drifters and beggars around the city. PHOTO: APICHART JINAKUL
ON THEIR WAY HOME: Illegal Cambodian immigrants, who allegedly came to Thailand to beg, at the Immigration Police Bureau after being rounded up in a crackdown on human trafficking. Also seized were a large number of begging ‘props’, including artificial legs. PHOTOS: SOMCHAI POOMLARD
The current uncertain situation between Thailand and Cambodia is having a knock-on effect on many of Bangkok's beggars
14/02/2010
Erika Fry
Bangkok Post
The officials, standing before the cameras and a table piled high with crutches and prosthetic limbs, claimed the day kicked off their campaign against human trafficking and smuggling gangs.
The 557 Cambodians - a group of 220 men and 337 women, many elderly or severely disabled - were deported as illegal migrants and dumped rather unceremoniously at the border the next day.
The Cambodians were said to be beggars. They had been rounded up in a sweep of Bangkok streets in the four days before the press conference, on the heels of Bangkok Deputy Governor Teerachon Manomaiphibul's declaration that transnational trafficking rings were working on the city's streets and needed to be tackled.
According to news reports that followed the press conference, the operation was spearheaded by the Immigration Bureau and the National Operation Centre on Human Trafficking, who are targeting the traffickers and smugglers that bring beggars to Thailand.
"Beggars disturb foreign tourists and damage the tourism image of Thailand," said Pol Lt Gen Wuthi at the time.
Yet while anti-trafficking was the pretext for the crackdown, Thailand's anti-trafficking policy, which has taken many agencies, many years and many baht to craft, seems to have been summarily dismissed.
While no one disputes Thailand's right to follow its own immigration laws - indeed hundreds of illegal Cambodian migrants are deported each day - the action troubled a number of observers and organisations that contend the Cambodian beggars were deported in violation of Thailand's own Anti-trafficking in Persons Act, without the screening to identify trafficking victims or individuals entitled to protection.
Cambodian beggars are often vulnerable to trafficking, even if they are not trafficking victims at the time of their migration, and Thailand has a well-established policy to deal with the population more discriminately.
In the days following the deportation, the Mekong Migration Network (MMN), an affiliation of 35 civil organisations in the region, issued a statement protesting against the "deportation of Cambodian beggars without due process", and called for appropriate screening mechanisms and respect for the rights of migrants who should not be treated as criminals.
Weeks after the much publicised round-up, questions remain regarding the handling of the group. Neither the Foundation for Women (FFW) nor Friends International, NGOs with Khmer speakers who usually assist the Immigration Bureau in the screening process, interviewed members in the group of 557. They were uncertain if anyone had. Several UN outfits and a handful of anti-trafficking organisations in Cambodia are also curious, but unaware of the circumstances or whereabouts of the deported group.
The Immigration Bureau declined to comment, or even provide basic statistics regarding the deportation, saying that responding would threaten the integrity of the deported beggars and the reputation of the Immigration Bureau. The MSDHS deferred comment to the immigration authorities, but were not aware of their response, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, two weeks after Spectrum's interview request, were concerned, but "still in the dark" about the situation and awaiting answers from the responsible ministries.
The unusual, high-profile handling of the group, at a time when Thai-Cambodian relations are particularly heated, has led to speculation that the deportation was political theatre.
Regardless of the government's motives, NGO workers who interact with those begging on the streets have noted fears and increasing movement underground among Khmer beggars, who worry they will be mistreated because of the political situation between the two countries.
Observers have also questioned whether the claim that the 557 were beggars is accurate.
Regular surveys of Bangkok's street beggars conducted by the BMA and Friends International every three months consistently show there is a revolving population of 100-200 street children, and 25-50% of these tend to be Khmer. While these numbers only account for children, extrapolation from the figures has led some to doubt there were more than 500 Cambodian beggars to be rounded up in early January. These same people assume the sweep went beyond Bangkok and included non-begging illegal Cambodian migrants.
In the days since the mass deportation, the police have continued their sweep, but following the scrutiny of human rights groups, have been holding the rounded-up beggars at the Immigration Detention Centre (IDC) - a group of 70 individuals, ranging in age from less than one year to 77.
FFW staff have been allowed access to the group and conduct screening interviews with select women and child beggars. Their testimonies suggested the beggars had come to Thailand voluntarily - and it's impossible to reach a firm conclusion regarding the involvement of traffickers. At the same time, they cautioned that children signalled to each other and gave rehearsed answers to questioning, making it difficult to ascertain whether their answers were accurate. A number of others in the group were unwilling to give testimony, while others were evasive and pretended to not understand, despite the presence of a Khmer translator.
It was also noted that while these vulnerable groups may qualify for social services and a spot in Thailand's government shelters, they may not understand or want them. They often just want a steady income and to return to work, the FFW notes.
For these reasons, and many others, it is difficult to identify trafficking victims, and to ameliorate Thailand's Cambodian beggar issues the FFW suggests DNA tests for parentage, better cooperation between Thai and Cambodian authorities, and more channels to access and assist vulnerable populations.
A "reception and repatriation" process for vulnerable Cambodian migrants has been in place - and in most cases used - since 2005. Sweeps and deportations like last month's were the fashion before then - in 2003, Thaksin Shinawatra famously airlifted 620 beggars back to Cambodia aboard C-130 Hercules transport planes as part of a street-cleaning effort in anticipation of the arrival of George W Bush and the Apec summit.
Under the present system, when beggars are apprehended, they are interviewed by Khmer-speaking staff of the MSDHS or affiliated NGOs who have been trained to identify victims of trafficking. Those that are identified are sent to either Ban Kred Trakarn, the women's shelter, or Ban Phumvet, the men's, where they are provided with various forms of assistance, compensation and support in prosecuting their traffickers.
Those not identified as trafficking victims, but who have been rounded up by the police for the first or sometimes second time, will be sent to the Nonthaburi Reception Home for Destitutes, a shelter where they are interviewed about their migration and provided shelter and vocational training for the several months it takes to ready them for repatriation. In these first instances of begging, Thailand's Bureau of Social Welfare and Cambodia's Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation work together to gather information about the migrants, locating family members and home villages, and creating a repatriation plan.
Beggars who have been rounded up by the police multiple times will be sent to the Immigration Detention Centre and deported. Many social workers and NGO staff comment that this is the preferred fate for most of the beggars, as they waste no time or money cooped up in shelters. They often return to Thailand a few days later.
Indeed, the stream of Cambodian beggars into Bangkok can seem endless; there are children who claim to have been to Thailand on 20 separate occasions to beg. The Thai and Cambodian governments struck a deal in 2008 to better manage the repatriation and the migration of the begging population, but Somjit Tantivanichanon, the Superintendent of the Nonthaburi Reception Home for Destitutes, says the formal process is still slow and lacks the follow-up services to make repatriation effective and permanent.
Since June 2005, the Nonthaburi Reception Home for Destitutes has facilitated 21 formal repatriations for 1,101 vulnerable Cambodian migrants, usually beggars. An additional 1,577 have been deported by the Immigration Bureau.
"They come again and again," says Ms Somjit. She also notes that the work can be especially challenging under the strain of Thailand and Cambodia's tense diplomatic relations; repatriations have been slow and complicated, which at times has led to overcrowding in the shelter. The majority of the residents of the home are Thais who are homeless or have psychiatric problems.
A relative few Cambodian beggars are sent to Ban Kred Trakarn or Ban Pumvet as trafficking victims. Those who are, tend to be children apprehended in Thailand without parents.
Recent research also suggests that most Cambodian beggars are not victims of trafficking. According to a 2006 study by Friends International, an NGO that was founded in Cambodia and now works with street children on multiple continents, most children claim to be begging in Bangkok with a parent who has made the journey voluntarily. About 20% of the children were begging under more dubious circumstances, with a non-blood relative often identified as a family friend.
"It came out very clearly - they may be exploited when they arrive, but they come because they believe they can make much more money here," says Tamo Wagener, international coordinator for Friends International.
The organisation's research shows begging is almost always a more lucrative pursuit for Cambodians than working in their homeland or migrating to Thailand, legally or illegally, for minimum wage work. The same study found that begging works in Thailand - more than 80% of 400 Thais interviewed frequently gave to beggars.
The research also seems to largely debunk the widespread belief that beggars are highly organised networks operated by Cambodian gangs. While Friends International staff said gang-run begging rings may exist to a limited degree - there was some evidence to suggest this is the case for street children selling flowers, sweets and small goods - the overwhelming number of cases they encounter involve Cambodians who come to Bangkok voluntarily to beg. They found beggars enjoy freedom of movement and working hours, and live independently in rented rooms. They also found no evidence that beggars were deliberately mutilated for the purpose of begging.
At the same time, the study suggests migration for begging is often quite strategic and designed to elicit maximum pity and profit. Mothers will often come with only one or two of their youngest children - the large majority of child beggars are under five - disabled adults or the elderly. They will, in exchange for a monthly salary, travel with the child of a relative or family friend.
At the same time, staff at the organisation say the work is by no means lucrative, particularly if beggars get rounded up by police and are put in a shelter for several months. Most earn 100-500 baht per day. "They are not rich families, but poor people that are looking for money," says Mr Wagener.
While their research showed beggars were largely "happy", in another question 80% of child beggars said they did not want to continue begging.
The NGO's staff emphasise beggars are vulnerable. They live in poor conditions, with poor hygiene. While some may have connections in Thailand and a minimum level of protection, they are scared of institutions and authorities. They will often use multiple names or identification details to avoid blacklisting or to confuse immigration officials.
Nong, a street outreach worker for Friends International, once had to escort a Cambodian woman, who was pregnant and bleeding on a Sukhumvit pavement, to a police hospital for help. And she took some convincing.
They all say the Cambodian beggar issue, and finding an end to it, is as challenging and complicated as it is important.
"We don't advise people to give to beggars - these kids don't go to school and their kids will be back on the streets in 15 years," says Mr Wagener.
Friends International's approach is three-pronged and starts in Cambodia, where they attempt to address the root problem of poverty and promote livelihoods and safe migration. They also work in the border area and target families likely to migrate with education and information. Finally, they provide outreach services on Bangkok's streets, to encourage beggars to return home, and in the government shelters, where they assist in preparing beggars for repatriation.
Like Ms Somjit, it's a problem they don't imagine will go away soon. Of the hundreds of beggars they've supported at the Nonthaburi Reception Home for Destitutes, they know of only six who have built stable lives back home.
"No one likes to beg. It's not socially rewarding. But as long as there is lots of money here and few alternatives in Cambodia, they will come," says Chalermrat Chaipraser, Friends International's country programme director.
Like their colleagues at MMN, they don't think round-ups and mass deportations are going to stop them.
14/02/2010
Erika Fry
Bangkok Post
While no one disputes Thailand's right to follow its own immigration laws - indeed hundreds of illegal Cambodian migrants are deported each day - the action troubled a number of observers and organisations that contend the Cambodian beggars were deported in violation of Thailand's own Anti-trafficking in Persons Act, without the screening to identify trafficking victims or individuals entitled to protection.On Jan 11, Deputy Prime Minister Maj Gen Sanan Kachornprasart, in a suit, tie and face mask, gave a press conference at the National Immigration Bureau. He was joined by Immigration Bureau Commander Pol Lt Gen Wuthi Liptapallop, also in a face mask; Social Development and Human Security (MSDHS) Minister Issara Somchai; and 557 Cambodians, some who had lost their legs, and who were the apparent cause for face masks.
The officials, standing before the cameras and a table piled high with crutches and prosthetic limbs, claimed the day kicked off their campaign against human trafficking and smuggling gangs.
The 557 Cambodians - a group of 220 men and 337 women, many elderly or severely disabled - were deported as illegal migrants and dumped rather unceremoniously at the border the next day.
The Cambodians were said to be beggars. They had been rounded up in a sweep of Bangkok streets in the four days before the press conference, on the heels of Bangkok Deputy Governor Teerachon Manomaiphibul's declaration that transnational trafficking rings were working on the city's streets and needed to be tackled.
According to news reports that followed the press conference, the operation was spearheaded by the Immigration Bureau and the National Operation Centre on Human Trafficking, who are targeting the traffickers and smugglers that bring beggars to Thailand.
"Beggars disturb foreign tourists and damage the tourism image of Thailand," said Pol Lt Gen Wuthi at the time.
Yet while anti-trafficking was the pretext for the crackdown, Thailand's anti-trafficking policy, which has taken many agencies, many years and many baht to craft, seems to have been summarily dismissed.
While no one disputes Thailand's right to follow its own immigration laws - indeed hundreds of illegal Cambodian migrants are deported each day - the action troubled a number of observers and organisations that contend the Cambodian beggars were deported in violation of Thailand's own Anti-trafficking in Persons Act, without the screening to identify trafficking victims or individuals entitled to protection.
Cambodian beggars are often vulnerable to trafficking, even if they are not trafficking victims at the time of their migration, and Thailand has a well-established policy to deal with the population more discriminately.
In the days following the deportation, the Mekong Migration Network (MMN), an affiliation of 35 civil organisations in the region, issued a statement protesting against the "deportation of Cambodian beggars without due process", and called for appropriate screening mechanisms and respect for the rights of migrants who should not be treated as criminals.
Weeks after the much publicised round-up, questions remain regarding the handling of the group. Neither the Foundation for Women (FFW) nor Friends International, NGOs with Khmer speakers who usually assist the Immigration Bureau in the screening process, interviewed members in the group of 557. They were uncertain if anyone had. Several UN outfits and a handful of anti-trafficking organisations in Cambodia are also curious, but unaware of the circumstances or whereabouts of the deported group.
The Immigration Bureau declined to comment, or even provide basic statistics regarding the deportation, saying that responding would threaten the integrity of the deported beggars and the reputation of the Immigration Bureau. The MSDHS deferred comment to the immigration authorities, but were not aware of their response, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, two weeks after Spectrum's interview request, were concerned, but "still in the dark" about the situation and awaiting answers from the responsible ministries.
The unusual, high-profile handling of the group, at a time when Thai-Cambodian relations are particularly heated, has led to speculation that the deportation was political theatre.
Regardless of the government's motives, NGO workers who interact with those begging on the streets have noted fears and increasing movement underground among Khmer beggars, who worry they will be mistreated because of the political situation between the two countries.
Observers have also questioned whether the claim that the 557 were beggars is accurate.
Regular surveys of Bangkok's street beggars conducted by the BMA and Friends International every three months consistently show there is a revolving population of 100-200 street children, and 25-50% of these tend to be Khmer. While these numbers only account for children, extrapolation from the figures has led some to doubt there were more than 500 Cambodian beggars to be rounded up in early January. These same people assume the sweep went beyond Bangkok and included non-begging illegal Cambodian migrants.
In the days since the mass deportation, the police have continued their sweep, but following the scrutiny of human rights groups, have been holding the rounded-up beggars at the Immigration Detention Centre (IDC) - a group of 70 individuals, ranging in age from less than one year to 77.
FFW staff have been allowed access to the group and conduct screening interviews with select women and child beggars. Their testimonies suggested the beggars had come to Thailand voluntarily - and it's impossible to reach a firm conclusion regarding the involvement of traffickers. At the same time, they cautioned that children signalled to each other and gave rehearsed answers to questioning, making it difficult to ascertain whether their answers were accurate. A number of others in the group were unwilling to give testimony, while others were evasive and pretended to not understand, despite the presence of a Khmer translator.
It was also noted that while these vulnerable groups may qualify for social services and a spot in Thailand's government shelters, they may not understand or want them. They often just want a steady income and to return to work, the FFW notes.
For these reasons, and many others, it is difficult to identify trafficking victims, and to ameliorate Thailand's Cambodian beggar issues the FFW suggests DNA tests for parentage, better cooperation between Thai and Cambodian authorities, and more channels to access and assist vulnerable populations.
A "reception and repatriation" process for vulnerable Cambodian migrants has been in place - and in most cases used - since 2005. Sweeps and deportations like last month's were the fashion before then - in 2003, Thaksin Shinawatra famously airlifted 620 beggars back to Cambodia aboard C-130 Hercules transport planes as part of a street-cleaning effort in anticipation of the arrival of George W Bush and the Apec summit.
Under the present system, when beggars are apprehended, they are interviewed by Khmer-speaking staff of the MSDHS or affiliated NGOs who have been trained to identify victims of trafficking. Those that are identified are sent to either Ban Kred Trakarn, the women's shelter, or Ban Phumvet, the men's, where they are provided with various forms of assistance, compensation and support in prosecuting their traffickers.
Those not identified as trafficking victims, but who have been rounded up by the police for the first or sometimes second time, will be sent to the Nonthaburi Reception Home for Destitutes, a shelter where they are interviewed about their migration and provided shelter and vocational training for the several months it takes to ready them for repatriation. In these first instances of begging, Thailand's Bureau of Social Welfare and Cambodia's Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation work together to gather information about the migrants, locating family members and home villages, and creating a repatriation plan.
Beggars who have been rounded up by the police multiple times will be sent to the Immigration Detention Centre and deported. Many social workers and NGO staff comment that this is the preferred fate for most of the beggars, as they waste no time or money cooped up in shelters. They often return to Thailand a few days later.
Indeed, the stream of Cambodian beggars into Bangkok can seem endless; there are children who claim to have been to Thailand on 20 separate occasions to beg. The Thai and Cambodian governments struck a deal in 2008 to better manage the repatriation and the migration of the begging population, but Somjit Tantivanichanon, the Superintendent of the Nonthaburi Reception Home for Destitutes, says the formal process is still slow and lacks the follow-up services to make repatriation effective and permanent.
Since June 2005, the Nonthaburi Reception Home for Destitutes has facilitated 21 formal repatriations for 1,101 vulnerable Cambodian migrants, usually beggars. An additional 1,577 have been deported by the Immigration Bureau.
"They come again and again," says Ms Somjit. She also notes that the work can be especially challenging under the strain of Thailand and Cambodia's tense diplomatic relations; repatriations have been slow and complicated, which at times has led to overcrowding in the shelter. The majority of the residents of the home are Thais who are homeless or have psychiatric problems.
A relative few Cambodian beggars are sent to Ban Kred Trakarn or Ban Pumvet as trafficking victims. Those who are, tend to be children apprehended in Thailand without parents.
Recent research also suggests that most Cambodian beggars are not victims of trafficking. According to a 2006 study by Friends International, an NGO that was founded in Cambodia and now works with street children on multiple continents, most children claim to be begging in Bangkok with a parent who has made the journey voluntarily. About 20% of the children were begging under more dubious circumstances, with a non-blood relative often identified as a family friend.
"It came out very clearly - they may be exploited when they arrive, but they come because they believe they can make much more money here," says Tamo Wagener, international coordinator for Friends International.
The organisation's research shows begging is almost always a more lucrative pursuit for Cambodians than working in their homeland or migrating to Thailand, legally or illegally, for minimum wage work. The same study found that begging works in Thailand - more than 80% of 400 Thais interviewed frequently gave to beggars.
The research also seems to largely debunk the widespread belief that beggars are highly organised networks operated by Cambodian gangs. While Friends International staff said gang-run begging rings may exist to a limited degree - there was some evidence to suggest this is the case for street children selling flowers, sweets and small goods - the overwhelming number of cases they encounter involve Cambodians who come to Bangkok voluntarily to beg. They found beggars enjoy freedom of movement and working hours, and live independently in rented rooms. They also found no evidence that beggars were deliberately mutilated for the purpose of begging.
At the same time, the study suggests migration for begging is often quite strategic and designed to elicit maximum pity and profit. Mothers will often come with only one or two of their youngest children - the large majority of child beggars are under five - disabled adults or the elderly. They will, in exchange for a monthly salary, travel with the child of a relative or family friend.
At the same time, staff at the organisation say the work is by no means lucrative, particularly if beggars get rounded up by police and are put in a shelter for several months. Most earn 100-500 baht per day. "They are not rich families, but poor people that are looking for money," says Mr Wagener.
While their research showed beggars were largely "happy", in another question 80% of child beggars said they did not want to continue begging.
The NGO's staff emphasise beggars are vulnerable. They live in poor conditions, with poor hygiene. While some may have connections in Thailand and a minimum level of protection, they are scared of institutions and authorities. They will often use multiple names or identification details to avoid blacklisting or to confuse immigration officials.
Nong, a street outreach worker for Friends International, once had to escort a Cambodian woman, who was pregnant and bleeding on a Sukhumvit pavement, to a police hospital for help. And she took some convincing.
They all say the Cambodian beggar issue, and finding an end to it, is as challenging and complicated as it is important.
"We don't advise people to give to beggars - these kids don't go to school and their kids will be back on the streets in 15 years," says Mr Wagener.
Friends International's approach is three-pronged and starts in Cambodia, where they attempt to address the root problem of poverty and promote livelihoods and safe migration. They also work in the border area and target families likely to migrate with education and information. Finally, they provide outreach services on Bangkok's streets, to encourage beggars to return home, and in the government shelters, where they assist in preparing beggars for repatriation.
Like Ms Somjit, it's a problem they don't imagine will go away soon. Of the hundreds of beggars they've supported at the Nonthaburi Reception Home for Destitutes, they know of only six who have built stable lives back home.
"No one likes to beg. It's not socially rewarding. But as long as there is lots of money here and few alternatives in Cambodia, they will come," says Chalermrat Chaipraser, Friends International's country programme director.
Like their colleagues at MMN, they don't think round-ups and mass deportations are going to stop them.
24 comments:
why siem only pick on vulnerable innocent khmer civilian? they supposed to help the vulnerable people. where is the human rights group when they need them?
Cambodia should take care of their beggars, please don't come to Thailand and make our country looks bad. I strongly support Thais to kick those handicaps back to Khame for Hunsen 555+
Gen. Chea Mon's son named Chea Sophal was in illegally logging business in Seim Reap, TraPeang Prasat, Anlong Veaeng, this bastard had asking poor khmer people to go up and fell down the tree for him...this bastard even used military place to stockpile all them logging, and shipping them out at night to vietnam...
I agree with comments above! Khmer people should stop going to Thailand illegally and begging in their country, this is making Thailand even look down on us more...alot of things we can still do in our homeland, Thais people are very curel and have no dignity, their people are so fucken rude and nasty bastard...i've never forgotten the abused from Thais soldier toward Khmer people in refugee camp K.I.D
Who will give a fuck! Life for dirt poor Cambodian people are cheap and lower than animal!
The Siem can do whatever they want to these so called "Khmer beggars" regardless of diplomatic problem between Cambodia and Thailand!
Cambodia today under AH HUN SEN comparing to the Khmer Rouge era is like haven and hell! But why are these Khmer people choose be a beggar in the first place?
Now this is what I don't understand and why are these Khmer beggars able to go through Siem military checkpoint in the first place unless these Siem military border guards are corrupted!
Khmer people are Thork Tiep! they make themselves Thork Tiep...
Becaus of dictator Hun Xen cannot governt our country!!
Hun Xen have to finde the job for the people,Hun Xen has to do everything for the peole,not only for his family and his CPP generals!!!
Every country in the world,the government do everything for the own people,but dictator Hun Xen do nothing and he destroy the own peopl for youn Hanoi!!!!
Because of dictator Hun Xen!!!!
Drug,Murder,robber,bagger,Mafia, and more because of the people have no work!!!
Ah Hun Xen cannot do nothing for the own people!!!
Please wack up all khmers!!!
Hun Sen needs to stop micromanaging Cambodia! Give Cambodian people the freedom to do what they want to do with their life!
Even the poor of the poor Khmer people refuse to live under Hun Sen rule!
12:49 PM,
I agree! It is a disgrace to Cambodian Civil Society as a whole. What the fuck is ah kwack mother fucker hun sen doing for not taking care of these beggers.
12:53 PM,
Pouch ah jou louch jeath. Som larb vea joul tao....pouch ah roleay. die die die mother fucker!
12:53 PM,
My comment is aimed at that FUCKER General shit head son...
1:22 PM,
Thai people like to play dirty trick. They allow Cambodian beggers to go into their country. So that they arrest those beggers and deport them back to embarrass Hun Sen and disgrace Cambodian nation.
The begging for survival is one thing but allowing begging to become the national culture is unacceptable and immoral.
All it takes government to allot land (usually 5 ha plus a home plot 50mx 100m)to each of the arrested beggars. Make sure issued land title and contract for each to guarantee the development of land and will not be able sale to resell to third party for at least 30 year clause. Gov't subsidised micro entreprise loan or co-operative fund shall be set up to assist with low interest loan to each new land owner candidate as the capital seed money to develop land.
Importantly co-operative market be set up to buy products at competitive price from the new land developer.
This way it surely will reduce the begging mentality in society and motivate the poor to be self reliant and respected.
Stop handing out fish to poor but rather teach them how to fish to live.
Hun Sen and his government loves to hand out bottles of fish sauce and instant noodles or small amount of cash every time and every where he goes . He does it not only to the destitute but the career soldiers a swell.
That's condescending and contemptible act. It's evil and criminal to encourage the society to condoe such behavior in such way.
When you go to doentoen in Bangkok like MBK center, Pratunam intersection or Siam Square, you will see the poor children,dandicaped and women who come from Cambodia.
When Thai government sent them back to Cambodia, they will go to Thailand again.
Do u know why they want to Bangkok?
Eventhough they are just beggar,they get money more than many people in rural area(both Thai and Cambodia) approximately 300-500 per day (15-20 us dollars per day.
The Royal Cambodian Government, please do something about this issue.
Thai immigration should send the khmer beggars to the 5 golden star generals: Hun xen, chea xim, heng xamrin and king Norodom sihakmony should give some stars general to those beggars too. Once they get some stars geneals from the king, they will not be a beggar any more.
Those 5 star generals offered by the khmer king look the same as the beggars rounded up by thai authority.
Very easy. Just have the king Sihakmony give the 555+ star generals to those 555+ beggars. That's it, thai will not have any more beggars on their street.
1:11 AM and 1: 17AM,
Both of you are absolutely right. Ah kwack, ah Heng Samrin, and Chea Sim beg international donors to fat up their bank account until they were awarded five stars from the useless King of Cambodia.
1:50 AM
And these dumb fucked international donors are fooled by these fools. What a fucking idiots.
PM Hun Sen must resign Gen. Chea Mon right away! Gen. Chea Mon allow his son continue to destroy Cambodian treasures, his son named Chea Sophal is in illegally logging business with Vietnamese, those poor khmers people that were shot and burned alive by Thais soldier...becaus of Gen. Chea Mon's son-FAULT!
PM Hun Sen must resign Gen. Chea Mon right away! Gen. Chea Mon allow his son continue to destroy Cambodian treasures, his son named Chea Sophal is in illegally logging business with Vietnamese, those poor khmers people that were shot and burned alive by Thais soldier...becaus of Gen. Chea Mon's son-FAULT!
If anyone believed that Thailand allowing so many Khmer beggars to enter in Thailand while Thailand shoot many Khmer workers at the border it is Thailand propaganda.
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