5 October 2017
PHNOM PENH - Interior Minister Sar Kheng yesterday said 70,000 foreign nationals in Cambodia are holding irregular immigration documents, threatening legal action against the officials who wrongly issued the papers.

Mr Kheng made the comments while presiding over a meeting at the ministry in which he announced plans to revoke the irregular documents from their holders.“We cannot be patient because this is a national problem that must be solved,” said Mr Kheng.

General Sok Phal, director-general of the General Department of Immigration, said authorities had found more than 70,000 foreigners, mostly Vietnamese nationals, holding improperly issued documents during a recent crackdown. Mr Phal said that five nationalities make up the 70,000, including Vietnamese, Lao, Chinese, Thai, and Bangladeshi.

He added that the holders of such documents will be deported in the future. “We will not kill them like the Lon Nol or Pol Pot regime,” said Mr Phal...
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5084713/ill ... -targeted/

CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2017 6:10 pm “We will not kill them like the Lon Nol or Pol Pot regime,”

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11 October 2017
- Vietnam yesterday called on the government to guarantee the legal rights of Vietnamese migrants living here after immigration officials last week said they would revoke the invalid documents of 70,000 immigrants, most of them ethnic Vietnamese.

Le Thi Thu Hang, spokeswoman for Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry, said she hoped the government would take appropriate measures to guarantee the legal and legitimate rights of ethnic Vietnamese in the country.

“We hope that while people are waiting for their legal documents to be completed, they will be able to maintain a stable life and continue contributing to Cambodia’s socio-economic development,” she added.

Last week, immigration authorities said they would seize documents issued improperly to 70,000 people, most of them ethnic Vietnamese, but they have not threatened their forcible removal...
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5085566/vie ... nts-purge/

shlomo wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2017 6:15 pm

CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2017 6:10 pm “We will not kill them like the Lon Nol or Pol Pot regime,”

That's a relief.

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Echobeach wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2017 3:20 pm

shlomo wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2017 6:15 pm

CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2017 6:10 pm “We will not kill them like the Lon Nol or Pol Pot regime,”

That's a relief.

Thats a very strange thing to say . Don't worry , we will not kill you !

hahaha i love it, at least theyre honest

‘From Head to Toe a Yuon’: The Path From Prejudice to Deportation in Cambodia

Prejudice has its own historical momentum, but the law can either counter or support this.
By Laurie Parsons
October 16, 2017
This month has seen the Cambodian government announce its latest spike in activity against ethnic Vietnamese communities living in Cambodia. Interior Minister Sar Keng announced last week that some 70,000 people, mostly Vietnamese, are living as “illegitimate citizens” due to the possession of incomplete or improper documentation. Building on an August sub-decree allowing authorities to cancel documents such as passports and identity cards, he explained, these documents would be revoked as part of a “coherent national policy” aimed at clarifying citizenship and residency rights. Under these plans, citizenship will be effectively withdrawn from thousands of the country’s most vulnerable people, justified on the grounds that “they should never have been citizens” in the first place. Retrospective legality has adopted a new tone in the Kingdom...
Full article : https://thediplomat.com/2017/10/from-he ... -cambodia/

Vietnamese migrants could be on borrowed time in Cambodia
21 October 2017
PHNOM PENH: The Cambodian government has illegal Vietnamese migrants in its sights, threatening to deport any “newcomers” unable to produce correct and legal documentation.
The Ministry of Interior earlier this month reiterated plans to revoke documentation from about 70,000 individuals on the basis that they were incorrectly issued.

Most of those affected will be ethnic Vietnamese, many of whom were born in Cambodia, speak Khmer and have few connections to the neighbouring country.

Those who have their documents confiscated will be allowed to remain in Cambodia only if they were registered in the 2002 national census, according to Kem Sarin, spokesman for the General Department of Immigration. That was a problematic poll that the government previously acknowledged had only reached 70 per cent of “foreigners”.

“There will be no forceful repatriation for those who have their names in the 2002 census but all newcomers have to be sent back,” Kem Sarin said.
Those with documentation, notably missing a Royal Decree now deemed necessary to be valid, are allowed to stay but will effectively need to rescind any rights as a Cambodian. Their permit to stay would last for two years and they would need to meet certain criteria to continue residing in what for many is their generational homeland...
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asi ... ia-9328706

Concern and panic for many ethnic Vietnamese families installed in Cambodia for generations, as the authorities continue to seize and destroy their immigration papers, which are now called illegal documents in gov-speak.

More than 1,700 ethnic Vietnamese families’ docs taken
6 December 2017
The process of revoking documents from ethnic Vietnamese people, many of whom have been living in Cambodia for generations, is halfway complete in Kampong Chhnang province, according to the provincial director of immigration. In a move described as a human rights violation by observers, Ministry of Interior officials have spent eight days examining and revoking documents from 1,733 Vietnamese families in the province.

Some interviewed by The Post last week have lived in Cambodia for generations, only leaving the country temporarily in the 1970s to escape the purges of the ethnic Vietnamese under the Khmer Rouge. In total, 2,393 families are being targeted in Kampong Chhnang, affecting over 10,000 people...

Migrants can typically apply for citizenship after seven years of residency. Despite the fact many of the individuals in question were born and raised in Cambodia, the seven-year wait would begin now, according to Laikheang’s deputy Pal Soth.

“During that time, they need to pay taxes on immigrant status,” Soth added.
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/m ... docs-taken

first they came for the Jews .. so i didnt buy a condo Then they came for me..
the price of politics is too high

For ethnic Vietnamese, papers purge starts in capital
12 December 2017
Officials began the process of revoking “irregular” documents from ethnic Vietnamese in Phnom Penh yesterday, as part of a campaign that some observers have labelled a massive human rights violation.

“They just started with two districts today,” Tuol Kork and Chroy Changvar, said Lou Rabor, deputy Phnom Penh police chief. “The other day they had a meeting about the implementation with the Phnom Penh governor and Immigration Department chief Sok Phal.”

The process first kicked off in Kampong Chhnang province, where officials identified over 10,000 individuals to be stripped of documents. Rabor said 21,500 were expected to be stripped of documentation in Phnom Penh. In total, 70,000 people will be affected, the majority of whom are ethnic Vietnamese.
Human rights observers have warned that the current campaign will disenfranchise an already marginalised group, rendering them stateless.
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/e ... ts-capital