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| Thirty Cambodian men arrive at Phnom Penh Airport yesterday after being rescued by Indonesian officials while working on Thai fishing boats. (Photo by: Mai Vireak) |
Tuesday, 13 December 2011
Mom Kunthear with additional reporting by Mary Kozlovski
The Phnom Penh Post
Another 30 Cambodian men among 65 rescued in Indonesia after being trafficked into work on fishing boats in Thailand were repatriated to the Kingdom yesterday, following the return of 30 such workers last week.
The remaining five workers are set to be repatriated next month, Chiv Phally, deputy director of the anti-human trafficking and juvenile protection department at the Ministry of Interior, said yesterday.
“It was so great for me to see my country again after I left here two years ago,” 33-year-old Mouy Hoeun said upon his arrival at Phnom Penh International Airport yesterday.
Mouy Hoeun said he was sold into work on the fishing boat.
“They forced the workers to work very hard, and they beat us if we didn’t work hard. It was very hard work for us to be the boat workers,” he said, adding that he would see his family on Thursday.
Another worker, 20-year-old Thach Chandy, left Cambodia to work in Thailand a year ago.
“I am very happy to come back to my country after I was cheated to work on the boat for one year, and I want to see my home and my family very much,” he said.
Koy Kuong, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, yesterday said the ministry was still working with Indonesian authorities and the International Organisation for Migration to repatriate the remaining workers.
Chiv Phally said workers would have their health checked and officials would interview them in order to identify brokers involved and send documentation to relevant provincial courts to request that local prosecutors open investigations.
He said it was difficult to investigate and arrest brokers.
“We really need [workers] to work and cooperate with us, but when they come back, most of them don’t want to cooperate with the police by telling us the identity of the brokers, because most brokers are their relatives or neighbours,” he said.
Chiv Phally said some workers went back overseas to work three or four months after they returned to Cambodia.
“We are worried about their security and health and that’s why we try to explain to them not to take a chance with a broker,” he said, adding that more than 100 workers trafficked onto fishing boats were repatriated from five countries to Cambodia this year.
Runnazar Hang, project manager at IOM, said that another three workers could be repatriated on Wednesday, but he was unsure when the remaining two would return.
Representatives from the Cambodian Embassy in Jakarta could not be reached for comment yesterday.
6 comments:
DON'T DO IT AGAIN, BOYS!!!!
go be a fisherman in alaska where you make more money if you can stand the frigid temperature there, ok!
All the Siem fishing boats must be stopped on high seas to check for human trafficking!
My heart goes out to Indonesia government for saving these dirt poor Cambodian people who are tricked by the Siem thuggish businessmen of good paying job!
Under AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave puppet regime dirt poor Cambodian people are forced to risk their life just to put food on the table!
How many million times do i need to said FUCK THAI..........!!!!!!
i told you all, siem people are the world's worst human rights abusers, if you investigate them! they all hide behind their so-called democracy, only on stage but behind the scene, they are evil, abusive and nothing like democracy they showed the world, you know. that's siem thugs! you always hear they shot khmer civilians, abuse the khmer fishermen, etc, etc! maybe, it's time for human rights to investigate siem cruelty, really!
Hey Dumb Vietgooks and Vietgook lady Ms. Soap, Smart Asses/Clever Killers! Khmer people are not dumb, but Khmer people are very peaceful people who don't create warm. You Dumb Vietgooks like to make wars and play games with other. It is too late for your Vietgook to play the dirty tricks like your Vietgook had done in the past like the Vietgook War with Americans. Then You Vietgook the create the secret and dirty plan in the blind eyes of International communities and you have tried to fool foreigners as much as you can. However, you, Vietgooks can't because Khmer people all over the world and international communities caught your bad and evil acts, playing to be smart ass to kill Khmer and Laotian people to spread ugliest Vietgookization that has ugly culture and ugly tone.
Go ahead to spread the Vietgookization, Ms. Vietgook Lady, Ms. Soap. You are very good to deceive men to show some cock for you, but no man want to fuck your ugly Virgina even though you are so pretty Vietgook lady and because you are a very bad lady to cause a lot of problem in Cambodia and support your illegal Vietgooks living in Cambodia. What a mess, Ms. Vietgook lady Ms. Soap. You are no different as Vietgook secret agents hiding among Khmer society to quietly kill innocent Khmer people who are very peaceful people who did not like to make wars. You Ms. Soap and your Vietgooks try to kill innocent and peaceful Khmer people who live there where you ugly Vietgook bitch and your illegal Vietgooks living in Cambodian on purpose in order to steal land by your committed evil murderous acts and overtake everything from Cambodia. You Ms. Soap and your Vietgooks are the same as secret Vietgook/Yuon agents hiding among Khmer Rouges Regime that murdered innocent and people Khmer people, trying to accuse Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, and every Khmer Rouges as Killers instead. How clever and smart your Vietgooks and you Vietgook lady (named yourself Ms. Soap) are today. Stop playing the trick and dirty game or plan with Khmer people and foreigners or International Communities. You Vietgook lady and your Vietgooks always think the U.S. to ignore or that the U.S. does not know about your dirty secret plan to wipe out Khmer people and your Vietgooks manipulate the U.S. to hate innocent and peaceful Khmer people with no reason. Your Vietgooks keep fooling the U.S. and Europeans and International communities. We, Khmer people, have a lot of things to say how bad and evil you Vietgook lady and Vietgook folks are in everywhere around the globe.
If something occur badly between Yuon/Vietgook and Khmer people in the U.S., there will be a lot of noise about Vietgook country and folks that are dog eaters and eat everything animals and creatures until they are not existed anymore. Bad Vietgook dog eaters.
Please Khmer people in the U.S. and abroad let's make noise and chant on the street or protest against Vietgook folks like Ms. Soap and her evil Vietgook government in Cambodia and Laos to change and manipulate other foreigners in the blind eyes of International Communities.
Vietgook lady named herself Ms. Soap, tries to spread her dirty and unreliable comments to fool young Khmer, Vietgook children to confuse and be brainwashed to kill Khmer people, believe wrong and rewritten history about Vietgookization. Vietgook culture and language are very ugly and boring. Vietgook copied the ideas of how to make Khmer food everywhere their Vietgook restaurants. For example, fresh spring roll, rice mercelli, all kinds of Khmer food to be Vietgook food.
Please Khmer people make noise about Vietgook and don't wait until the world know how bad Vietgook fooks are because of the manipulation and accusation of this Vietgook Bitch named herself Ms. Soap.
Then the people in the world will stop Vietgook folks and government to kill Khmer people including Laotian people before Vietgook folks and their ugly government to take over the lands and make their ugly and disgusted Vietgookization/Vietnamization.
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