Analyst rips Uighur deportation
Thursday, 04 March 2010 15:05 Sebastian Strangio and Cheang Sokha of the Phnom Penh Post
LAST-MINUTE changes to a sub-decree regulating procedures for screening asylum seekers paved the way for the government’s forced deportation of 20 ethnic Uighur asylum seekers, violating their rights under local and international law, an Australian academic has asserted.
KKrom seeking help from UNHCR
Thursday, 04 March 2010 15:04 Khouth Sophak Chakrya
Posted by the Phnom Penh Post
A GROUP of 22 Khmer Krom deportees protested in front of the Phnom Penh office of the UN refugee agency Wednesday, bringing their pleas to an organisation that maintains it is powerless to help them.
Khmer Krom will not receive social land concession: officials
Wednesday, 03 March 2010 15:04 David Boyle and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
Posted by the Phnom Penh Post
THE Ministry of Interior has ruled out granting a social land concession to 22 Khmer Krom deportees, following comments made by a Phnom Penh municipal police official on Monday that suggested the group could receive land from the state.
KKrom appeal ruling on genocide at ECCC
Wednesday, 03 March 2010 15:05 James O'Toole
Posted by the Phnom Penh Post
LAWYERS for Khmer Krom civil parties at the Khmer Rouge tribunal have appealed the co-investigating judges’ January decision not to bring genocide charges specific to the ethnic group, arguing that a narrow scope of investigation will prevent their clients and other civil party applicants from meaningfully participating at the court.
Khmer Krom deportees lose NGO rent support
Monday, 01 March 2010 15:05 David Boyle and Khouth Sophak Chakrya of the Phnom Penh Post
THE prospects of 22 Khmer Krom deportees denied identity documents by Phnom Penh police last month became a little bleaker on Sunday after local rights group Licadho stopped paying for their housing and food.
Stateless Ethnic Minority Khmer Krom Face Difficult Future in Cambodia
Published on February 23, 2010
By Licadho
Since December 24, 2009, LICADHO has been assisting a group of 24 Khmer Krom people after they were deported from Thailand as illegal immigrants. The Khmer Krom are an indigenous ethnic minority living mostly in southern Vietnam and Cambodia in the Mekong Delta area.
Police criticised over KKrom
Wednesday, 24 February 2010 15:04 Camron Wells and Tharum Bun of the Phnom Penh Post
MUNICIPAL police officials on Tuesday called the representative of a group of 22 Khmer Krom asylum seekers to police headquarters in order to explain the rationale behind the decision to deny them identification cards, a move that has drawn the ire of civil society groups.
No more aid for KKrom, NGO says
Posted by the Phnom Penh Post
THE NGO that has been covering rent and food expenses for the group of 22 Khmer Krom seeking asylum in Phnom Penh informed them on Monday that it could not afford to offer support past the end of February, giving them just five days to come up with new living arrangements.
Khmer Krom ID denied
Monday, 22 February 2010
By Cameron Wells and Tharum Bun
Published by Phnom Penh Post
A GROUP of Khmer Krom asylum seekers who say they are fleeing persecution in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta region have been formally denied identification cards by police officials, several representatives said Sunday, casting further doubt over the options that will be available to them when NGO-provided assistance runs out at the end of the month.










