Press Release
Phat Sokleang Has Returned Home but
Cambodian Domestic Workers Still Need Help
Phnom Penh – September 06, 2012
On behalf of her family, we would like to express our sincerest thanks to all individuals, media and authorities who assisted in bringing Phat Sokleang back to her family. Sokleang left her home on the morning of Monday, August 27, 2012 and disappeared for two days. She was found in Tuol Krosang Pagoda, located in Sen Sok District, Phnom Penh on Wednesday afternoon, August 29, 2012. Sokleang is now at home safely in Kampong Siem District, Kampong Cham Province.
As a victim of labor trafficking, Sokleang is not in a proper mental state. She was a normal girl before working as a maid in Malaysia in 2005. Sokleang was 15 years old when she was recruited for domestic work. After only 4 months of employment she returned to Cambodia with horrific mental trauma that has ruled her life for the last 7 years. Barely able to speak or eat and refusing to wear clothes she was tied to her family home for her own safety. After locating her in 2011, CLEC has been helping her family to provide proper medical treatment and rehabilitation. 7 years on, she is receiving treatment from psychological doctors. Sokleang was only one of an estimated 50,000 Cambodian maids in Malaysia.
To see her story and her progress please visit: http://youtu.be/f_0EKgodP5c
For more information please contact:
Mr. Tola Moeun, Head of CLEC Labor Program
Tel: (855) 66 777 056
Email: tola@clec.org.kh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_0EKgodP5c
5 comments:
That sucker white-ass talks too fast, I can't catch up what he was saying, I take more time listening.
It is ironic that under Decho Hun Sen, Khmer workers have to get out of Cambodia to work while the Vietnamese found that Cambodia is a heaven for them to work and live.
Something major is wrong here when your own country become a hell for you and a heaven for your neighbors who have always wanted to take your country.
This is not an accident; it was designed by Vietnam and applied to Cambodia through its slave Hun Sen.
Bun Thoeun
Cambodians go to Malaysia as maids and Malaysian women are shipped to Saudi Arabia as maids. They too fell into slavery in the hands of Arabian Mighty men. If they allow Cambodian women to go to Arabia, they will fall into the same boat. Saudi Arabia has the worst human rights violation on record.
W~W
If I'm a leader of Cambodia, Cambodia will be well developed within 5 to 10 years.
What a sad story!
Baay Kdaing
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