Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Thailand deports back 210 Cambodians from Rong Kluea market

03 May 2010
By Suon Sophal Mony
Source: Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata for KI-Media

Thailand’s joint authorities arrested Cambodian citizens who lived in Rong Kluea market without proper legal paperwork, and they handed them over to the Cambodian authority in the evening of 02 May.
In the evening of 02 May, Thai immigration police, cops and black-clad soldiers arrested numerous Cambodian citizens who slept along various stalls inside Rong Kluea market, Thailand, and who do not hold proper legal paperwork. The arrested Cambodians were taken in for education before they were handed over to the Cambodian authority.
Ser Lak Ky, a merchant inside the Rong Kluea market, said on Monday 03 May that, on 02 May starting from 08PM to 02AM, numerous Thai joint force members went to knock on each market stall and at locations where Cambodian merchants are living to check on their paperwork, subsequently the Thai forces arrested numerous Cambodian citizens who live there illegally.
Ser Lak Ky said: “Last night, there were Thai cops, the black-clad [soldiers] who came to arrest many, about ten truckloads and seven black-and-white cop vehicles. The people arrested were all Khmer citizens living there, but they did not obtain a border pass, there were so many of them who did not have border pass.”

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